Jiuzhou dts6695

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Combo Receiver

Jiuzhou Combo PVR DTS6695 for Europe

•GreatforthewholefamilythankstoInternetaccess•Smartpowersupplywithexternalpowerunit•Sufficientchannelmemory•SeamlessintegrationofInternetservicesofferedbyTVchannels•Easysoftwareupdate

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Combo Receiver

Jiuzhou Combo PVR DTS6695Top-notch receiver for the

whole family

A single box for DVB-S/S2 and DVB-T reception

Jiuzhou’s combo receiver DTS6695 is so new it arrived at the TELE-satellite edito-rial office in a blank white box devoid of any logo or description.

When we opened the box we were in for another sur-prise: Well aware of its in-creasingly prominent posi-tion as global supplier of top-notch receivers, Jiuzhou has made a smart move to-wards being compatible with all sorts of power supplies and mains sockets – the re-ceiver itself comes without a power pack at all, which instead is supplied as an external unit, depending on the destination country. A simple 12V power socket is positioned on the receiver’s back panel, and all you need

output for mind-blowing sur-round sound, and a network interface for linking up to a local LAN. Added to that are a total of eight RCA jacks for stereo audio, CVBS and YUV video, and an S-Video sock-et, scart euroconnector and RS 232 interface. In case you’re wondering about the main switch: There is none on the back panel of the DTS6695, because with an external power pack there is no need for one. The re-mote control that comes with the receiver also leaves a positive impression with its easy-to-use layout and great ergonomics.

When you turn on the re-ceiver for the first time all you will likely see is a ‘No channel’ message, which

means that you should start out with running a chan-nel scan. To that end all you need to do is press the MENU button to call up the perfectly neat main menu, which is easy to navigate and also pleasing to the eye.

Working yourself through the individual entries you first make sure the receiver cooperates with your LCD or plasma TV, before taking the next step and setting up the receiver to work with your antenna configuration.

1. Main menu of the DTS66952. Basic settings of the DTS66953. Satellite settings4. Automatic channel search on several satellites 5. Manual channel search in DVB-T mode

to do is hook up the exter-nal power pack that comes with the box, or you may even use any existing de-vice as long as it provides 12V DC with a minimum of 2.5A. As our test unit came without a power pack, we simply chose the latter op-tion and used one of our ex-isting units – which worked just fine.

They say that first impres-sions go a long way, and Jiu-zhou packs all components

of the DTS6695 into a stylish 26cm case featuring six but-tons on the front panel for operation without a remote control. A CI+ compatible card reader is hidden behind a flap, as well as a USB 2.0 interface. A four-digit seg-ment display and an LED in-dicating the operating mode round off the front panel.

The receiver’s front panel comes in black, while the case itself is silver – even though this design state-

ment may not go down well with all potential buyers we found that the colour mix works quite well.

Let’s have a look at the back panel now, which is filled to the brim with all connection options you will ever need. Apart from the standard tuner input and loop-through outputs (for DVB-S/S2 and DVB-T) you will of course find a HDMI output for excellent video quality, an electrical S/PDIF

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6. Automatic channel search via satellite7. Channel editing and sorting options8. Several favourites lists are available9. LAN configuration10. Web browser – address field

supported so that the re-ceiver will work with stand-ard multi-feed antennas for up to four LNBs just as well as with multi-focus anten-nas for up to 16 LNBs and with motorised antennas using either the DiSEqC 1.2 or 1.3 protocols. Big cheers from us for such brilliant DiSEqC implementation!

The channel memory can hold up to 4000 channel en-tries and in order to fill it up a single touch of a but-ton takes you to the chan-nel search menu. On the left section of the screen there is a list of all avail-able satellites for selection (several entries can select-ed at once), while the right-hand section shows various search modes and options such as free-to-air chan-nels only, radio or TV only, network search mode, and so on.

Once you have made all relevant settings the green function key activates the automatic signal search. We selected HOTBIRD 13° East for our test and the Jiuzhou DTS6695 took slightly more than eight minutes to scan the entire frequency range. The DVB-T scan was com-pleted in less than a minute.

If you need to add indi-vidual channels at a later stage you should perform a manual search, which is available for both DVB-T and DVB-S/S2. In satellite mode the Jiuzhou box even al-lows manual PID input. The modulation type is always detected automatically by the receiver. A search on one of the major European satellite platforms may eas-ily yield 1000 or even more channel entries, so organis-ing and managing all those channels is of the essence. Luckily, the channel edi-tor of the DTS6695 is your

Obviously the new Jiuzhou box makes sure users in many countries can ‘under-stand’ its on-screen display, and the choice of menu lan-guages goes far beyond the classics such as English, French and German. Speak-ers of Spanish, Italian, Pol-ish, Russian, Hungarian, Czech, Dutch and Romanian will be happy to learn that ‘their’ language is available as well. The selection of lan-guages also goes to show that the DTS6695 is geared towards the European mar-ket. The list of pre-set coun-tries for DVB-T reception underpins that impression as it only includes European countries.

Using the HDMI output the video signal can be pro-cessed in 576p, 720p and 1080i and we cannot praise highly enough a dedicated button on the remote to switch between these set-tings on the fly, without hav-ing to go through a menu.

Now that the DTS6695 has become a perfect match for our TV, we proceed to the next stage and introduce it to our reception equipment high up on the roof. Jiuzhou ships its new box with a list of 64 pre-stored Euro-pean satellite positions, all of which come with suitably current transponder data. As far as LOF’s are con-cerned, the Jiuzhou receiver offers a range of pre-set os-cillator frequencies for the C and Ku bands, as well as a manual option for those out-of-the-ordinary settings.

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best friend when it comes to bringing some order to your list. It can be used to delete, move or rename channels, or to perform an automatic channel sorting. Thanks to several favourites lists you (and all the other members of your family with their in-dividual favourites list) will find your favourite channels in next to no time at all.

Now that the Jiuzhou re-ceiver is tailored to your needs and those of your satellite antenna(s) it’s fi-nally time to check out how it performs its core task: TV and radio reception. To start with, we should emphasise the DTS6695’s video and audio quality, which is noth-ing short of brilliant and was able to impress everybody in our editorial offices.

Every time a new chan-nel is called up the receiver shows a smartly designed info bar for a few seconds, which displays the name of the current and next event. With the help of the receiv-er’s clearly laid out EPG it is even possible to use it as a seven-day TV guide, as long as individual channels transmit the required data.

Zapping equals fun with the DTS6695, since chan-nels can be grouped into favourites lists and are thus

always at your fingertips.

Speaking of zapping: It only takes about one sec-ond until the selected chan-nel appears on screen so there’s nothing in the way of exploring the wide range of channel offerings. Thanks to the neat info bar we were always kept up to date about current and upcoming events as well.

The comprehensive range of features of the new Jiu-zhou receiver is rounded off with an OSD teletext decoder, an audio option to switch between different audio tracks (if provided by the channel) and a subtitle mode. We even discovered a handy little feature of the channel list which al-lows searching for a specific channel by keying in the first letter(s) of its name. If you need to change be-tween DVB-T and DVB-S/S2 reception there is a dedi-cated button on the remote and we found that switch-ing worked flawlessly in any event.

When we mentioned the USB interface on the front panel earlier on you might have guessed already that the DTS6695 comes with PVR capability. The USB socket can be used to at-tach an external storage

11. Software upgrades can be performed via satellite or with a USB stick12. MP3 playback13. JPEG picture viewer14. The DTS6695 is able to play back video files with a variety of formats 15. Playback of a HD video in H.264 format16. Playback of a HD video in Divx format17. Channel list with satellite selection18. TELE-satellite website as displayed on the LCD TV using the DTS6695 browser19. Info bar with title of current and next event20. EPG21. Interactive multimedia services of Bayerischer Rundfunk22. Extended EPG23. Interactive multimedia services of Bayerischer Rundfunk24. Interactive multimedia services of Sat.125. Video on demand via Internet

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26. The DTS6695 can also display current weather information27. ARD Mediathek (online content library)28. Teletext29. HDTV channels via DVB-S2 are processed flawlessly by the DTS6695 30. Channel list restriction to DVB-T reception

medium, even though this means that the flap on the front panel has to stay open while the USB interface is in use. We tested all PVR func-tions of the box and could not fault any of them. But then again, we would not expect anything less from Jiuzhou.

These days PVR receiv-ers don’t just record and play back events, and the DTS6695 is no exception: It can be your MP3 jukebox, your image viewer and your video player for TS, MPEG and DivX files, to name just a few formats.

If you don’t want to stop at DTH satellite reception, you will be interested to find out more about the high quality and low threshold of the satellite tuner used by Jiuzhou.

As you know we like to push all tested models to the limit and in this case we are pleased to state that the DTS6695 passed all tests with flying colours. It ac-cepted and processed weak signals (C/N values start-ing from just 5 dB) just as well as SCPC signals from approximately 2 MS/s. The only thing that is missing with the Jiuzhou DTS6695 is a blind scan mode.

The Internet has become a driving force in our life, and no matter how we view that development, being online is almost a fact of life these days. Posting on social net-works, checking mails and chatting with family and

friends all over the globe are part of our daily routine, so it’s only logical that Jiuzhou has made its DTS6695 fully Internet-ready. The receiv-er comes with an Ethernet interface on the hardware side, and Internet browser on the software side so that users can go online during commercial breaks.

Remember the time when a game of Tetris on a satel-lite receiver was considered cool? These days you go on-line rather than play games. Obviously the Jiuzhou box supports all required pro-tocols such as DHCP, for example, and therefore be-haves similar to a PC in your local network.

One of the reasons for supplying the DTS6695 with a network interface is the emergence of interactive TV. HbbTV (Hybrid Broad-cast Broadband TV) is the name of a service that is already offered in a num-ber of European countries such as Germany (ARD, ZDF, Sat1/Pro7, Vox, QVC, etc.), France and Spain, to name but a few. If a viewer watches an HbbTV channel the receiver will automati-cally detect this feature, es-tablish an Internet connec-tion and display a message indicating available HbbTV content.

If you then want to switch from the regular channel to corresponding additional in-formation you simply press the red function key in order to call up comprehensive background content which may range from advanced EPG and current news and weather all the way to ex-tensive content libraries or on-demand services. In our view, one of the most use-ful features is a content li-brary: Many channels offer their programming for on-

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Thomas HaringTELE-satellite

Test CenterAustria

DATATECHNICAL

Manufacturer Jiuzhou (Sichuan Jiuzhou Electric Group Co., Ltd.) 7F, Jiuzhou Electric Building, Southern No. 12 Road Hi-Tech Industrial Park, Nanshan District, Shenzhen Guangdong 518057, China

Tel. +86-755-26947128

Email [email protected]

Model DTS6695

Input frequency / 950-2150 MHz

Input frequency 177.5 - 226.5 MHz and 474 - 858 MHz

Symbol rates 2-45 Ms/s ( ) & 2-30 Ms/s ( )

SCPC compatible yes (tested >2 Ms/s)

DiSEqC 1.0, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3

EPG yes

C/KU band compatible yes

HDTV support yes (up to 1080i in MPEG-4 AVC/ H.264)

Input terminal F-type 75 Ohm

Modulations QPSK, 8PSK, 16 QAM, 64 QAM

HDMI yes

YUV, CVBS, Stereo Audio yes

S-Video yes

RF-Modulator no

Ethernet yes

USB 2.0 yes

RS232 yes

PVR Function yes

HbbTV yes

Power supply 12V, 2.5A

DIAGRAMENERGY

Active Power

Apparent Power

Mode Apparent Active FactorActive 5 W 1 W 0.2StandBy 21 W 10 W 0.47

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Perfect DVB-S/S2 and DVB-T combo receiver with PVR for the living room. The stable and sophisticated software did not show any sign of weakness during our test. What’s more, innovative features such as a web browser and access to interactive multimedia services and online content libraries put this receiver well ahead of the competition.

We were not able to activate WiFi reception, even though a dedicated menu entry pretended that it should work.

Expert Opinion

31. Channel list restriction to favorite lists 32. Channel list restriction to individual satellites 33, 34. SCPC reception via TURKSAT 42° East

First 15 minutes: Standby; Second 15 minutes: Active use with channel switching and PVR operation

line viewing on your PC after the actual broadcast date. Using HbbTV, receivers like the DTS6695 can now ac-cess these offerings direct-ly on the TV, so you don’t need your PC monitor any longer for watching TV. All you need for it to work is an HbbTV compatible receiver like the Jiuzhou DTS6695 and an Internet connection with a bandwidth of at least 2 Mb/s. Of course we tried out the HbbTV feature and found that it works flawless-ly. We particularly enjoyed various content libraries and at the same time stayed up to date with the latest news and weather reports.

The new Jiuzhou DTS6695 has left a lasting impression with us and proves yet again that Jiuzhou is one of the most innovative companies in the satellite business. Its latest offspring boasts top-quality workmanship and worked flawlessly through-out our test. In addition, the manufacturer never stops improving the soft-ware (which can be updated either with a USB stick or

via satellite) so that you can expect additional features every now and then.

What’s even more impor-tant, any potential software bugs can easily be solved as quickly as possible.