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HISTORY<br />
<strong>TELE</strong>-<strong>satellite</strong> Archives<br />
10<br />
Edited by<br />
Alexander Wiese<br />
MikroniK TV-Box 1000-S<br />
The digital era requires a lot of speed of manufacturers.<br />
What is a new development today will be<br />
history tomorrow. R&D departments are working<br />
overtime to keep track of all new developments.<br />
The benefit of doing everything in-house is shown<br />
by German Micronik. They offer their new 1000-S<br />
receiver, which is a full in-house development.<br />
We have already published a test report about<br />
this receiver and did get a lot of feedback from<br />
buyers of this receiver. Mostly positive remarks<br />
designed to make a better receiver of it. This<br />
indicates that the 1000-S has been accepted<br />
by the market, otherwise people would not be<br />
interested in it. Very soon after this test, Micronik<br />
released a new firmware version which could<br />
be uploaded by the users or by the retailer.<br />
One of the most nasty things in this digital era is<br />
the incompatibility of Conditional Access systems.<br />
For every pay-TV operator you will need either<br />
a separate box or a special Conditional Access<br />
Module (CAM.) This makes it so frustrating when<br />
moving around in Europe. A Dutch family moving<br />
to Switzerland can bring their receiver, but will<br />
not be able to watch any Swiss channel with it.<br />
So they will need a new, separate receiver.<br />
To overcome this situation, Common Access<br />
Modules were developed. But in practice it<br />
doesn’t work all the time, as some encryption<br />
standards are still not available (Irdeto).<br />
Micronik tried to solve this problem in a very creative<br />
way. They developed the so-called multi-accessmodule.<br />
It can hold up to four different PCMCIA<br />
modules and their smartcards. Whether it is Irdeto,<br />
Viaccess, Cryptoworks, Conax, Nagravision or even<br />
a complete new encryption standard, just plug it in<br />
and it is showtime. The firmware fully automatically<br />
detects the presence of the modules. Even fully<br />
integrated encryption systems can be inserted.<br />
Let’s take a real-life example: a guy from Greece<br />
living in France with a Spanish wife and kids<br />
growing up together with their French friends. He<br />
doesn’t want to live without the Hellas package. She<br />
wants to keep in touch with ‘home’ and have the<br />
Spanish package. The children want to talk to their<br />
friends about what was on French television last<br />
night. What to do? Buy three boxes? What a waste<br />
when you could solve this problem perfectly with<br />
the Micronik 1000-S. Just plug in all the neces-<br />
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sary CAMs together with the needed smart-cards<br />
and there you are. Simple and effective. And still<br />
ready for the future, even in this situation there is<br />
still room for more. Without any CAMs at all, the<br />
1000-S is still a very fine FTA receiver. So you can<br />
always turn to pay-TV later on, if you first decide<br />
to only FTA a while. This Multi-Access-Module<br />
(MAM) is the first to integrate a wide variety of<br />
encryption standards into one receiver. For Micronik<br />
this means they are way ahead of the competition.<br />
For the buyer it means saving money.<br />
Telecontrol’s i-Box<br />
We received a small black box and didn’t really<br />
know what to think of it. Well, there was an IF jack<br />
on the back, but that was about it. So we rang our<br />
retired in-house tester out of the bed only to learn<br />
that he had received a similar thing quite some time<br />
ago. We took out the manual for our new TV fairy,<br />
but we still didn’t know whether this was supposed<br />
to be an analogue <strong>satellite</strong> receiver with teletext,<br />
a teletext decoder with <strong>satellite</strong> TV and FM radio<br />
or something entirely different.After a while we<br />
found out why this piece of equipment is called<br />
TV fairy. For an annual fee of DEM 50 it can do<br />
a lot four you, your TV and your VCR (up to now,<br />
that applies only if you live in Germany.) Utilising<br />
the European radio data system (RDS) which was<br />
originally designed to allow FM radio stations to<br />
transmit data and information, the TV fairy helps<br />
you record your favourite TV shows without missing<br />
a second, it lets you check when your favourite<br />
movie will be on or which channel will offer films<br />
with your favourite actor within the next two weeks.<br />
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MicroniK<br />
03-04
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