Product is ok, but not outstanding

Product is ok, but not outstanding

Technisat TechniStar S2 digital HDTV satellite receiver (HDMI, DVRready, CI +, UPnP, Ethernet) (Electronics)

Customer Review

My experiences are after 4 weeks-operation (in addition to those already mentioned in anderern Reviews) as follows:

++ SFI is super good, but the genre something specific could be (even with "film", one could still distinguish between ... Thriller, Western)
++ Image quality is very good
++ Sound quality very good (so far at least for us no lip-sync issues)
++ Device commissioning is very easy
++ Timer can be programmed and edited, even if device is recording
++ Movies can be erased when recording is in progress (is important because you want to, if necessary, remove a watched film during recording)
++ Remote works over longer distances (> = 6m) and indirectly (unit does not have to be in sight), but every now and then willfully (z. B. this is misinterpreted by clicking on OK to start recording, so again the TV is visible and not the movie to be played)
- - There can not I be festlgelegt that only Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu is take a series (. Which is for example in 3Sat Nano so), here you would have to program the timer 5, which should be in the holiday season then deleted ,
- - The title of a program can be entered in a manual timer programming NOT advance
- - The title of a program that is programmed via SFI is, indeed pre-hidden, but it can not be changed. Unfortunately, it means the mission is taken a week later the same (so one just has X times the same scene in the list are subtitles)
- - The operation switches between Button and F keys (yellow, blue, ...), so it must be seen, where the button on the keyboard is
- - Important functions are not directly accessible from the menu (which has the consequence that the F-key must be pressed and then again the menu item (eg to delete a recording must first manage to click, then the red button and then. OK confirms the deletion)
- - During recording, you can not watch TV channels on the same transponder (which is sometimes even possible at low cost devices)
- - If you look at a picture, then happy again bucking the first 3 - 5 seconds. Even after break and continued jerky's briefly. But after that the film passes through (I run the receiver with a conventional Western Digital My Book Essential Edition (1000 MB) directly into the USB port).
- - If you record a movie and has seen parallel, then you want to delete this intuited film. First you have to click on Manage, it takes between 5 and 10 seconds, until the Delete button is available. More 2-3 seconds lost until you have pressed. It seems that the system while recording (in my case, "only" SD movies, is very busy)
- - If you switch the unit while recording, then comes a confusing menu in my view, so that on many occasions the recording "off" was because the wrong click.
- - Unit will not necessarily from after recording. User must before or during recording "Off" button (record works but despite disconnection)
- - Network port is for retrieval of recordings not using standard protocols FTP or HTTP accessible. Here you have the add-on software "Media Port" to install (which you "somewhere" gets, is not on the included CD, this includes only the manual). Despite Cable Connection via Switch was - at least for me - the access to the hard drive of the unit is not stable.
- - I have 2 of these devices, would of course have the same programs. Export and import the program list is not directly possible on USB stick. Only specially named files on the flash drive operations are carried out or dbdump dbload.
- - Must be used to move the transmitter menu. To the transmitter according to the own Fernsehzeitung adapt must be moved an average of about 25 stations. That is patience work. Here would be good if this via computer (file transfer via USB stick) would be possible.
- - 3-year warranty claim can only be of registering (stating the personal address, e-mail and purchasing data within 4 weeks after the invoice date) at TechniSat
- - For wireless operation, a separately purchased wireless antenna is necessary

All in all, a useful device, but by no means perfect.

If I have to pay the list price of approximately 170 EUR, then the device would have gone back. Fortunately, the price of

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