DigiCrystal SDT-9077P Reviews
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Posted on Mar 15, 2009
Reviews: 31
Pros: When it's working properly, it produces good quality standard definition audio and video. It can be made to record programs to its hard drive and replay them later.
Cons: The infuriating dumb flakey firmware. If you want to program it to record something, it makes you go through an obstacle course. Hit the wrong key and you have to key in everything again. It defaults to NOT recording. If there's a program time conflict, it lets you get right to the end before triumphantly telling you that there's a conflict and deleting everything you just entered. Even worse, if you do more than a small amount of skipping through advertisements on replay, the whole thing locks up and refuses to respond to any commands from the remote control or its front panel keys. You have to turn it off and on again to reset it. Too bad if it was recording something. This has happened to me dozens (or hundreds) of times, and mine has the latest firmware installed.
Overall: When it's functioning as a simple Set Top Box, it's great. If you're trying to program it to record something, or you're just trying to jump from one function to another with the remote control, its absense of 'fuzzy logic' is infuriating. Many times I've felt like throwing mine out the window and getting a real hard-drive STB like maybe a Topfield or LG. On top of all that, this model is known for a remote control fault which turned out to be due to a faulty capacitor in the remote. My overall advice is: unless you have a high frustration tolerance, keep away from this toy and get a real STB with a hard drive.
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Model:
SDT-9077P
Main Features
- Fully MPEG-2/DVB compliant
- Fast Zapping
- Five favorite channel group
- 8 bit colors on screen sidplay (OSD) supported
- Time asjustment
- Closed caption
- Chase play
- Powerful channel edit function: sorting. deleting, parent lock and channel rename
- Teletext output with both VBI and OSD
- EPG schedule record or play
- Logical channel number (LCN) supported
- HDD function: 160G IDE
- Tested with up to 250G HDD from several vendors
- Timeshift (buffering): 2~16 hours (depending on the size of HDD)
- Recording time: up to 120 hours (depending on the size of HDD)
- Variable forward and reverse play speed: 1, 2, 4, 8, 12, 1/2, 1/4, 1/8, 1/12
- Twin tuner: record one channel and watch another one
- Input frequency: 47~862MHz
- Input signal level: -90dBm to -20dBm
- Input impedance: 75Ω
- Bandwidth: 7M / 8M
- Signal input: IEC female (RF IN), IEC male (RF OUT)
- Decoding Demodulation: COFDM
- FEC: 1/2, 2/3, 3/4, 5/6, 7/8
- Guard: 1/4, 1/8, 1/16, 1/32
- Mode: 2K, 8K
- Protect Clearance: 1/4, 1/8, 1/16, 1/32
- Waveform: COFDM
- Standard: ISO/IEC 13838-1
- Input max.bit stream rate: 100Mbps (Serial)/150Mbps (Parallel)
- Decoding Memory
- Flash Memory: 2MB
- SDRAM: 128Mbit
- Video De-emphasis: CCIR REC.405-1, 625Lines
- Video bandwidth: 5.5MHz
- Video output impedance: 75Ω low
- Video output level: 1.0Vp-p
- Video output frequency: 20Hz-20KHz
- RF input: IEC-type, connector female
- Loop through output: F-type, connector female
- RF Modulator: CH21-69
- Y/C output: S-Video (optional)
- RS232 serial port: DB-9 female, 11.52Kbps
- Video audio output: YCbCr; 2 way CVBS and audio L+R
- Digital audio output: S/PDIF (optional)
- Standard: ISO/IEC 13818-2, MPEG-2 MP@ML
- Aspect ratio: 4:3, 16:9 on full screen, panscan and letterbox
- Video format: PAL/NTSC
- Video resolution: 720*576 (PAL), 720*480 (NTSC)
- IR receiver: 38KHz
- Standard: ISO/IEC 13818-3
- Output mode: mono, dual and stereo
- Sampling frequency: 32, 44.1 48KHz
- Decoding: MPEG-1 & MPEG-2 layer 1 and II RCU
- Category: IR (carrier 38KHz)
- Battery: 2*1.5V
- Input voltage: AC 100V~240V, 50Hz/60Hz
- Power consumption: 38W max
- Operation temperate: 0°C ~ 40°C
- Size: 357mm*252mm*62mm
- Weight: 3.5Kg without HDD
Here's a list of questions other people have asked about DigiCrystal SDT-9077P
What brand universal remote has DigiCrystal on it please?
Maggi asked on Nov 21, 2011
Sorry I don't know much about universal remotes. You could talk to Wagner Electronic Services in Ashfield NSW who sells a range of them fairly cheaply. Personally I'd suggest getting your present remote fixed. Most likely it only needs to have the capacitor in parallel with the battery replaced with one a bit bigger and of higher quality. That's how I fixed mine.
frednerk replied on Nov 22, 2011
My DigiCrystal SDT-9077P remote control to the set top box doesn't always work and need to get a new one. Where can I purchase one please? Thanks
Maggi asked on Nov 18, 2011
The problem's probably due to a defective capacitor in the remote. This is a known fault which is easily fixed. [email removed] Or you could try buying a "universal" remote control and working through the codes until your Digicrystal PVR responds.
frednerk replied on Nov 20, 2011
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