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Chapter 1

Introduction
The TF5000CI /TF 5100CI digital receiver is fully compliant
withthe international Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB) stan-
dard,and can receive digital broadcasts. For its operation, you
needan antenna, which must be installed appropriately.
NOTE
In general we equate a channel with a frequency. However,
unlike analog broadcasts, digital broadcasts are not all as-
signed to their own frequencies; instead, multiple television
and radio broadcasts are transmitted through a single fre-
quency.The frequency in digital broadcasting is usually called
transponder. Toreduce confusion, the word service is prefer-
ably used than channel as service indicates one television or
radiobroadcast in this manual.

1.1 Features

The TF5000CI /TF 5100CI digital receiver has the following
features:
• Supports DiSEqC 1.0, DiSEqC 1.1, DiSEqC 1.2 and US-