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Fortec Star Mercury

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MERCURY has been designed as the next generation receiver to the popular Lifetime Ultra receiver. In addition to all the features available in Lifetime Ultra, the MERCURY receiver has added many new features, such as the One-button POWER Scan and One-button Channel Edit. With the expanded memory capacity, MERCURY allows 150 satellites and 6,000 channels to be downloaded to the receiver. Channel surfers will also appreciate the enhanced Timer functions, the “privacy” capabilities of the special Favorite Group (FAV 7 List), and flexible POWER Scan controls.

This receiver is fully MPEG2/DVB compliant, and supports multi-languages.

Free-to-air Digital Satellite Receiver
Program up to 6,000 channels & 150 satellites
Flexible Power Scan controls for Blind Searches

FEATURES:
  • POWER Scan (blind search) with complete parameter control
  • One-button quick start Power Scan on the remote
  • One-button jump to Channel Edit function
  • Dolby Digital 5.1 audio pass-through (optical)
  • 150 programmable satellites and 6,000 programmable channels
  • Timer function for Sleep / Wake Up / VCR Record and Channel Reminder
  • Fully MPEG 2 / DVB compliant, MCPC/SCPC, C/KU reception
  • 1 LNB input with IF loop through for 2nd receiver
  • Variable input symbol rate 2 ~ 45Msps
  • Manual PID scan function
  • DiSEqC 1.2 and USALS supported
  • Picture-In-Graphics function
  • Multi-Picture (4,9, or 16 pictures) function
  • ZOOM In/Out
  • Electronic Program Guide
  • Teletext supported by OSD and VBI
  • Multi language menu
  • 7 favorite channel group selection and parental lock
  • Close Caption Supported
  • Data transfer: receiver-to-receiver or PC-to-receiver
  • 13V/18V LNB switching / 22KHz on/off
  • 4 RCA connections (1 Video, 2 Audio L/R, 0/12V)

IF / Tuner

Input Frequency

950 MHz to 2150 MHz

Input Signal Level

-25 to -65dBm

Input Impedance

75 ohm nominal

Input Connector

F-type, IEC 109-24, Female

FEC Decoder

Convolution Code Rate l/2, 2/3, 3/4,

5/6 and 7/8 with Constraint Length K=7

Demodulation

QPSK

Symbol rate

2-45 Ms/s SCPC/MCPC

IF Frequency / Bandwidth

480MHz / 30MHz Type

LNB Power & Polarization

V13 / H18, 500mA MAX. over current protection

DiSEqC Control

Ver. 1.0 / 1.2 Compatible

DiSEqC

USALS compatible, AUTO detect DiSEqC

Memory

Processor

NEC Emma2LL 32 bit

CPU

180 Mhz

Flash Memory

2 Mbytes

SDRAM

32 Mbytes

Satellite Capacity

150

Channel Capacity

6,000

Audio / Video Decoding

Video Decoder

MPEG-2 MP@ML (ISO/IEC 13818-2)

Input Rate

90Mbit/s Max

Video Resolution

720 x 480(NTSC)

Aspect Ratio

4:3, 16:9

Audio Decoder

MPEG- Layer I & II

Audio Mode

Mono L/R, Joint Stereo, Stereo

Audio Sampling Frequency

32, 44.1, 48 KHz

Audio / Video Output

Outputs

Video, Audio L/R, 0/12V, S-Video

S/PDIF

Digital Audio Output, Optical

DOLBY DIGITAL 5.1 Pass-through

Serial Data Interface

Connector Type

9 Pin D-Sub (male)

Signal

RS-232C, Max. 115200Bps

Power Supply

Supply Voltage

100VAC ~ 120VAC 60Hz(SMPS)

Power Consumption

Max. 25W

General

Weight

Approx. 2.5Kg

Dimensions

260(W) x 210(D) x 45(H)mm