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| Echostar AD 3000 IP Via |
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| European Contact: EchoStar International Corporation,
Schuilenburglaan 5a, 7604 BJ Almelo
The Netherlands
Tel. (31) 546 815 12 |
| Website |
| Opinion No. 1 |
By doktor from Ankara [ ] |
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| Pros: |
Pros: OAT,5000 channels,dolby digital |
| Cons: |
Cons: no AC3
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Points:
Perform : 9
Features: 8
Value/dosh: 7
Overall: 8 pts |
Best receiver was I have had (I had a humax 5400 and Benjamin 6000)
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doktor paid (approx.) €740 for the receiver |
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| Opinion No. 2 |
By jantje wilko from Doetinchem [ ] |
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| Pros: |
Pros: Very good picture/sound quality
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| Cons: |
Cons: Bad software support
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Points:
Perform : 8
Features: 7
Value/dosh: 6
Overall: 7 pts |
A few words about my ad300ipva, I feel a bit of dissapointment over my receiver, looking at the quality of the lt8700 the 3000 series is not even close. But anyway the picture/sound quality is for what i have seen a lot better than other digital receivers.
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jantje paid (approx.) €590 for the receiver |
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| Opinion No. 3 |
By eme from Wigan [ ] |
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| Pros: |
Pros: good menus and reliabilty
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| Cons: |
Cons: software causes problems sometimes
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Points:
Perform : 9
Features: 8
Value/dosh: 6
Overall: 8 pts |
very good loooking and easy to setup reciver.
had some software gliches, but now they are few, after installing version 6.00 software.
3 in one remote control is a god send and dam good.
after working on and playing with other recivers the AD3000IPVA is very very good.
echostar as a company is crap, but there is good forum backup.
I have had reciver for 18 months plus. |
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eme paid (approx.) €600 for the receiver |
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| Opinion No. 4 |
By echostar4 from Liverpool [] |
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| Pros: |
Pros: Quality motorised |
| Cons: |
Cons: No scanning transponders |
Points:
Perform : 9
Features: 8
Value/dosh: 6
Overall: 8 pts |
A QUALITY RECEIVER WITH BOTH ANALOGUE AND DIGITAL FACILITIES WITH VIACCESS AND TWO CARD SLOTS BUILT IN,MAYBE A LITTLE EXPENSIVE AT THE TIME AUG 2000,A GOOD PERFORMANCE RECEIVER
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echostar4 paid (approx.) €725 for the receiver |
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| Opinion No. 5 |
By theprofessor from Ipswich [] |
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| Pros: |
Pros: Compatible with magnetic polarisers and 36volt jacks
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| Cons: |
Cons: The software/manuals
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Points:
Perform : 7
Features: 7
Value/dosh: 6
Overall: 7 pts |
Having lived with the box a few months now, I still don't quite know who it is aimed at, as a dx and feed hunter's box it doesn't quite cut it, the software doesn't support the hardware capabilities well enough, but as a sit back and watch the telly box it's probably overfeatured/overpriced.
So what's good?
The hardware itself is good, now that the flash memory problems have been recognised and cured. The tuner is sensitive and locks on to weak carriers at low symbol rates far better than my old RSD ever did. The TV1000 services on Sirius lock solidly too. The embedded Viaccess module had no problems driving a passive season interface. The automatic satellite location calculation is right to within a few pulse counts, and theres an analogue receive capability to help find the sats too.
What's mediocre?
The compatibility with magnetic polarisers is poor, it does let you have two different settings per satellite for high and low band, but not different settings per transponder. This is necessary firstly because of the frequency dependent way in which a magnetic polariser works, and secondly because of the fact that different beams from the same satellite are sometimes skewed different amounts to suit the intended target area. Luckily with most transponders a compromise setting does get you enough threshold margin to avoid having to play silly buggers with the menu system.
Whats poor?
The handbook is, as ever with Echostar, atrocious! The operating system menus have a tree structure that always seems to mean that you can't get 'there' from 'here'. In many cases what should, to my mind, be a vital one press menu e.g. tweaking the currently watched channel parameters' is often buried deep inside the menu structure, you can't tweak the lnb local oscillator frequency offset by a MHz or two either.
Thankfully a channel editor is available.
In summary, it's a good box - but not a great one, there are occasional lockups on difficult signals, and it occasionally misses some pulses on the positioner. But then I give the box a good thrashing, it doesn't sit on hotbird/astra all day. When somebody makes a better dxers receiver I'll beat a path to their door, it shouldn't be hard to do ........ it's just that I don't think anybody has done it yet!
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theprofessor paid (approx.) €620 for the receiver |
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