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Chapter 1

Introduction

1.1 Introduction

TheTF 5400 PVR Combo digital receiver is fully compliant with
the international Digital VideoBroadcasting (DVB) standard,
andcan receive digital broadcasts. For its operation, you need
anantenna, 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 the term indicating one television
orradio broadcast in this document.
The TF5400 PVR Combo digital receiver has features as fol-
lows:
• Itsupports DiSEqC 1.0, DiSEqC 1.1, DiSEqC 1.2 and US-
ALS.