Good cable receiver

After I first tested on our new LCD DVB-T, I ordered the TechniSat. Freeview has for my taste still too many drawbacks, starting with the necessary antenna, the slow program change, the relatively few transmitters and hardly better image quality.

I was hoping with the TechniSat to obtain a better picture than the analog cable signal. After consultation with my cable provider KMS, was recommended with the MF 4-K. There I also learned that the KMS-free stations, unlike many other cable providers not grundverschlüsselt. A separate decoder card was spared me therefore.

The installation is slightly out of hand. Antenna cable, scart cable and batteries for the remote control are included with the package. When scart cable you should consider to purchase a higher quality, however. When analog Scart can sometimes work wonders.

The receiver was significantly more channels than analogue cable, a total of nearly 100 stations. The program change takes the TechniSat quickly. Overall, I found that the image quality had improved. Although one can not expect miracles. You only get a better picture partly because under DVB-C transmitted coded with MPEG-2, stations have any particularly great quality. Most cable providers limit the useful bandwidth per channel in order to transmit as many channels. Including of course the quality suffers. In 5 years, looks probably better.

Only channels that are encoded with MPEG-4, are therefore broadcast in HD, are in really good quality. But the TechniSat is not HDTV receivers and can handle any case no HD. That was with me but also unnecessary, because so far there is no free channels will be broadcast in HD. In Premiere, the course looks different.

Overall, we can recommend the TechniSat Digital MF 4-K anyone who wants to get more channels from its cable channels and a slightly better picture hoped.