Mogelpackung 4 6

A digital satellite receiver with this equipment for about 30 euros? There's something fishy! Yes, it is, but first things first:
STRONG is a trademark of the French manufacturer Thomson. Since today holds until noon on day regardless of the price of everything, only 12, I can also set equal to the low-cost product (My Topfield for four times the price has held all four years and funzte rather bad).

Because he is so in front of me, the STRONG STR 7004: Beautifully compact, better processed than expected and provided with all possible connectivity options. Operation and equipment are self-explanatory and if you nevertheless times not progresses, are multilingual manual in flawless German fast information. The remote is intuitive to use, but flew - after I had programmed my universal remote control - fast in the drawer. In this connection would perhaps be noted that the receiver can be remotely controlled in a beautiful wide angle; to read again and again that this is not self-evident in the competition. The vast majority of this country relevant channels on Astra are ordered pre-programmed and meaningful. Nevertheless, I have again started a search and sorted me the transmitter itself. This in turn is done with difficulty using the remote control. Being able to do something like that place at the computer, there is not apparently. The Dolby Digital signal comes either via HDMI or S / PDIF. I use the former.

So we come to the Additional Features: The receiver has 2 USB ports, of which one on the front. About Here you can play movies, music and photos on your TV. STRONG has expressly indicated that the playback performance of any media is not guaranteed. First test: The MOV clips of my iPhone not go before, go JPEGs, more I have not tried. Whether you can record movies on the stick or an external HDD is nowhere, but would be obvious and technically possible. On the website there is STRONG paid software updates for some models, with these PVR-capable. For the SRT 7004 but to look for it in vain. Submitting a Support Request then brought certainty:
"We regret to inform you that it is not planned to take with your receiver. Therefore, we can not give you any appropriate software. The USB interface is provided for playing files."
Aha, there is therefore the first hook. After all, there is but a support, who also answered quite quickly.

So we dedicate ourselves to the LAN interface. Fix connected to the router, et voilà: I already am "online". I can choose between a couple of RSS feeds and weather forecasts. Nanu? Was that all? Yes! - On the Internet you do not get away with it and also specified in the item description YouTube feature does not exist and since that has worked so well with the support, I have the same yet to be verified: "We regret to inform you that your SRT 7004 the function described in your email request not supported. " Thus, the LAN port is therefore superfluous.

Amazon has now painted on my note back at least from the heading the YouTube feature. However, the disappointment remains. Actually, you can expect what is technically possible, but here in software functionality is again restricted in order to promote the right to exist of high-priced equipment and that is cheating in my eyes, even if it is now common practice in almost all manufacturers.

Otherwise, the Strong SRT 7004 is for the price not a bad device, therefore 3 stars or in words "not bad". For long-term durability of course I can not say anything yet. Striking however is already clear that the audio signal at irregular intervals is briefly interrupted during a broadcast in Dolby Digital Broadcast and come back, which results in short interrupted audio. I'll be watching the time.