Reduced to the bare necessities

In many modern TVs today puts the technology for the HD satellite already in it. The "digital box Imperial HD1 basic" So therefore makes almost exclusively only sense where a flat TV yet a private, HD-efficient DVB-S2 receiver module has - provided, but this has at least been an HDMI port.

For precisely this - in fact dwindling - target group the small digital box is intended -version in their "basic" because more Videoanschlüssse as SCART or at least so-called "composite" jacks (composite RCA) are here None. Older TV sets (from the "kinescope time") to stay here so left out.

This and the outsourcing of power in an external power supply allow the very small size of the recipient. For connection to sound equipment has the small box of an electrical SPDIF output (coaxial).

While the USB connector can not be used to record, but at least for reproducing limited in their range of export formats (MP3) audio and video files (MPEG).

Praise:
- Very small size
- Cheap price
- Low power consumption
- Screen display can be switched transparently in stages

Criticism:
- Annoying long on time, relatively long switching between programs
- Small, a little too fiddly remote control that has to be beyond even properly aligned to the receiver
- Kitischige screen display (squiggly writing with Gold Shimmer appearance)
- Image quality mediocre
- No analog outputs (SCART or composite for neither picture, no RCA L / R for sound)
- Every few days depending on when too much up and down-zapping
- No display on the Gehäusefron