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Fortec star HD receiver now in maplin
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<blockquote data-quote="timpe" data-source="post: 500683" data-attributes="member: 284676"><p>Purchased a Fortec Star Passion beta stock from Maplin 2 weeks back at £99. Also bought a roll of insulating tape to take the order value up to £100 and used the £7 discount voucher. I have had Fortec Star boxes before, but used them as 2nd receivers for the family, and used a Technomate 1600 as the main box as I preferred its capabilitis for blind scan, epg and general user interface design.</p><p>The Passion is a leap forward for Fortec, and the beta stock arrived in the original box, with only some slight signs of use around the on/off when viewed in strong light. Bargain. Worked out of the box.</p><p>Read the psost here and updated the firmware from 1.05 to 1.07. Also downloaded the channel editor. Use USB up and downloading and found this totally reliable.</p><p>The Passion is great and I would recommend it, especially at the price. Drive my panel through HDMI at 1080 and find no picture problems. Even the kids notice the better quality! The USALS works, but sometimes find some problems with it not motoring to the right point. Going to menu and changing to Disequ and manually moving the motor, then returning to USALS and using Go To Satellite option resolves this.</p><p>Miss the blind scan of the Technomate and experience problems with HD channels sometimes not working. Flicking through HD channels (setup in a Favourite) ususally gets one to work, then the others work again. Needs more work on firmware?</p><p>Found that HD channels loaded back from the channel editor software are not recognised, and have to be deleted and rescanned. Read the post about the HD tick box, and havent looked at this to see if this is the error yet.</p><p>Thanks to all who have posted here before with information. Very useful and great information.</p><p>The Passion looks like it could be a great platform for development, and if Fortec are clever they will support this as it will make sure they capture market share.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="timpe, post: 500683, member: 284676"] Purchased a Fortec Star Passion beta stock from Maplin 2 weeks back at £99. Also bought a roll of insulating tape to take the order value up to £100 and used the £7 discount voucher. I have had Fortec Star boxes before, but used them as 2nd receivers for the family, and used a Technomate 1600 as the main box as I preferred its capabilitis for blind scan, epg and general user interface design. The Passion is a leap forward for Fortec, and the beta stock arrived in the original box, with only some slight signs of use around the on/off when viewed in strong light. Bargain. Worked out of the box. Read the psost here and updated the firmware from 1.05 to 1.07. Also downloaded the channel editor. Use USB up and downloading and found this totally reliable. The Passion is great and I would recommend it, especially at the price. Drive my panel through HDMI at 1080 and find no picture problems. Even the kids notice the better quality! The USALS works, but sometimes find some problems with it not motoring to the right point. Going to menu and changing to Disequ and manually moving the motor, then returning to USALS and using Go To Satellite option resolves this. Miss the blind scan of the Technomate and experience problems with HD channels sometimes not working. Flicking through HD channels (setup in a Favourite) ususally gets one to work, then the others work again. Needs more work on firmware? Found that HD channels loaded back from the channel editor software are not recognised, and have to be deleted and rescanned. Read the post about the HD tick box, and havent looked at this to see if this is the error yet. Thanks to all who have posted here before with information. Very useful and great information. The Passion looks like it could be a great platform for development, and if Fortec are clever they will support this as it will make sure they capture market share. [/QUOTE]
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