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A Small

but Nice

HDTV Receiver

TEST REPORT

HDTV Miniature Satellite Receiver

Panodic HDS275

Best designed mini-receiver

for the best HD

reception

With its slim dimensions

of only 27 x 16 x 4.7 cm, the

Panodic HDS275 will easily

fit into any TV environment;

thanks to its plain black cabi-

net it blends in nicely with

the background.

The front panel shines in

its simplicity and, in addition

to a segmented display that

shows the current time or

the currently selected chan-

nel number, it sports six but-

tons that can be used to con-

trol the receiver without the

remote control. A status LED

that switches between green

and red indicates to the user

the current operational sta-

tus of the receiver (red =

standby, green = on).

Hidden behind a flap is a

CI slot for use with PayTV

services; it can accept all

the standard CI modules (for

example, Irdeto, Viaccess,

Conax, etc.).

Unlike most other modern

receivers, the HDS275 comes

with a Scart connector for

use on older TVs. Of course,

all the other connections

you’d expect to find are all

there: HDMI, YUV and CVBS

outputs are all available. The

audio output is available on

a coaxial digital audio output

as well as on two analog RCA

outputs.

Since the HDS275 is a

DVB-S/S2 receiver, there’s

also the typical IF tuner in-

put along with its associated

looped-through output as

well as a USB 2.0 interface

that can be used to turn the

receiver into a PVR if it’s con-

nected to an external USB

storage device.

The remote control in-

cluded by the manufacturer,

just like the receiver, is very

small and the pressure points

for the buttons are clearly

marked. The arrangement

of the individual functions

at first glance might seem

a little unorganized, but you

should get used to it after a

short time.

The Panodic HDS275 is not

only small on the outside, it’s

also ‘small’ on the inside. The

installation assistant that

appears the first time the

receiver is turned on only

offers three choices: time,

language and channel scan.

Because of this the in-

stallation is completed very

quickly. The first two options

take no time at all. As is typi-

cal, the HDS275 can also au-

tomatically set the internal

clock directly from the in-

coming satellite signal.

For the language selection

option, the Panodic offers a

representative cross-section

of all the more important Eu-

ropean languages.

It gets more exciting in the

Channel Scan menu. Panodic

included a preprogrammed

list of 24 satellites and cor-

responding transponders.

Unfortunately, this list is not

all that up to date. However,

we did like the wide variety of

settings capabilities to match

the receiver with your anten-

na. The HDS275 supports the

DiSEqC 1.0 and 1.1 protocols

and can therefore be used on

antennas with up to 16 LNBs.

Thanks to the individually

settable LOF, the receiver is

compatible with C-band and

Ku-band antennas as well

as any other type of recep-

tion system. Panodic even

thought about those users

with SCR single-cable solu-

tions and offers the neces-

sary parameters for that kind

of setup.

The manufacturer was very

successful in the implemen-

tation of the channel scan’s

graphical presentation; it is

available in transponder, sin-

gle satellite, multi-satellite

and blind scan modes.

The regular scan of HOT-

BIRD at 13° east found 1498

TV channels and 394 radio

channels in a reasonable

eight minutes. A BlindScan

of the same satellite resulted

in 1466 TV channels and 390

radio channels in 12 minutes;

it needed a little more time

and found fewer channels

than the regular scan using

preprogrammed transpond-

ers.

The main menu of the

HDS275 is divided into six