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IN PRACTICE
As usual, you will have to do some adjustments
after switching on the box for the first
time. First, you might want to check and
adjust the LOFs of your LNB. Normally, this
would be 9.75/10.6 for a universal LNB and
5.150 for C-Band reception. You can re-align
your dish using a signal strength bar graph,
but course an analogue signal is quite helpful
to visualise the results of your alignment job.
Teletext is supported and integrated with
the video signal, so you will need a television
set with built-in decoder. A nice feature of
this Strong SRT 4200 is the fact that when you
have selected a particular satellite, the channel
list only shows the channels available on
this satellite. Your fingers will finally get some
rest instead of flipping through virtually endless
channel listings of today’s digital television.
For every satellite, an LNB configuration
can be set respectively. Special features like
Auto Seek/Auto Scan will find new channels
for you, although the Satco-DX frequency
listings can be very helpful here. Finding and
storing channels is a job the SRT 4200 does
fast, really fast. No difference here in MCPC
or SCPC signals. It tries to find the applicable
PID codes in the data stream and sound and
vision is yours. To change PID codes you can
use the Edit-menu. In case of channels being
located very closely together in SCPC format,
the AFC of the SRT 4200 handles it very well
and perfectly separates the data streams.
Searching new channels is done with quite
some speed. When everything is finally set
up and you are ready to enjoy some TV,
you’ll also be able to enjoy the speed of
switching channels, which is what you can
expect from a state-of-the-art receiver.
Whenever EPG information is supplied
by the programme provider, it is available
to you. The Edit menu can do a lot more
than only offer you the freedom to change
PID codes. It enables you to swap, add and
delete channels.
Changing to analogue reception is not as
fast as moving around digital channels; it
does take some seconds because a different
on-screen display is used. The analogue
part is based upon the well-known analogue
receivers by Strong, offering low-threshold
in 32 steps, 400-channel memory, and S-,
C- and Ku-band reception. Both 18MHz and
27MHz bandwidths are supported. Changing
polarisation of the LNB can be done with the
common 14/18V control signal or with the
mechanical polariser feature, which also
offers skew adjustment.
To equalise the differences in video levels
across the various channels available today,
the SRT 4200 offers four different settings.
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The LOF can be freely set within the limits of
the receiver, in fact almost any LNB can be
connected to this receiver. For audio reception,
bandwidths between 130 and 500 kHz
are supported. There is no Panda-Wegener
stereo system built-in, instead a DNR chip
is used.
To adjust your receiver to local time, a
world city list will help you to set the time
zone you’re in. It will guarantee the absolute
right time in your display. Of course, widescreen
video is supported (16:9), a modulator
is built-in, and DiSEqC 1.0 is supported.
You can change the stereo mode from stereo
to left or right only. All necessary PAL parameters
can be adjusted to your local needs.
The on-screen display is very clear and
easy to read. Programming information is
always available at the right moment provided
it is broadcast by the station you’re tuned
into. So this is generally a very well designed
user interface.
One big drawback is of course the lack of
polariser support on the digital part of this
receiver. The on-screen display of the analogue
part should benefit a little more from
the high quality of that of the digital part.
This is something that Strong could change in
future models. To sync the picture with the
on-screen display during bad reception, a
blue background can be used. However, this
will hide almost all of the video signal. This
makes it necessary to switch the background
on and off while making adjustments. This
could be done in a better way.
CONCLUSION
Strong’s SRT 4200 is a real universal
receiver that will indeed do its job almost
anywhere around the world. We found only
a few minor details that could and very likely
will be improved in the future. It is universal
in more than just one way, and that makes
one of the best digital/analogue boxes we
have seen so far.
MORE INFORMATION
-www.TELE-satellite.com/TSI/9902/strong.shtml
Manufacturer/distributor
Information fax
Scart (peritel) connectors
Video out
Audio out
Y/C output (S/VHS)
Timer
12 Volt control
DiSEqC
22 kHz
Power supply
Teletext
LNB input
STRONG SRT 4200
DIGITAL
Down frequency/bandwidth
MPEG-2 standard
OSD
Channel memory
Edit features
SCPC / MCPC
Input symbol rate
Flash memory
Channel DRAM
EEPROM
Channel memory
Bandwidths
Threshold extension
Audio reception
De-emphasis
Audio bandwidths
ANALOGUE
Strong-UK, Ltd.
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2 (phono)
2 (phono)
yes
yes
yes
Version 1.0
yes
84-260 VAC (50/60Hz)
via TV decoder
900-2150 MHz
480MHz/55MHz
fully DVB compliant
16 colours
1.500(TV), 1.400(Radio)
yes
yes
2-45 Msps
1 Mbytes
1 Mbytes
2 Kbytes
400
27/28 MHz
yes (3.0 dbM (typ.) in 32 steps
5--9 MHz
J17/50µs/DNR
130/150/230/280/330/550 kHz
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