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Chapter 1

Introduction
The TF500 PVRc digital receiver is fully compliant with the
internationalDigital Video Broadcasting (DVB) standard, and
thusis able to receive digital broadcasts of that standard.
NOTE
Ingeneral we equate a channel with a frequency. Unlike ana-
logue broadcasts, however,digital broadcasts are not all as-
signed to their own frequencies; instead, multiple television
broadcastsare transmitted through a single frequency. The fre-
quencyin digital broadcasting is usually called transponder. To
reduceconfusion in this manual, the word
service
ispreferably
usedthan
channel
asa term to indicate one television or radio
broadcast.

1.1 Features

TheTF 500 PVRc digital receiver has the following features:
• Can store up to 2000 television and radio services.
• You can create favourite lists of your favourite services.