Manhattan receivers

Manhattan XTcM Receiver

	Highly recommended receiver. Very sensitive tuner, many magazine reviews and technical reviews have commented on the tuner. Compared to receivers like the ones supplied for Czech channels from the Cz republic, these are better suited to the weaker signals. The tuning is from onboard memory of list of tp transponders. To update the list , simply do a blind search. After searching for the tps the receiver extracts the channels on each frequency, which is a very speedy operation , compared to many other receivers.
	Organising the list of channels is easy and can be done by editing the channel list, moving channels, deleting channels or storing in a favourite group is very easy to learn. All these functions are demonstrated after installation by our engineer Andrew.
	Usual range of outputs for your tv: Scart composite video Scart RGB Phono/RCA comp video Digital Dolby sound out phono skt ( spdif )
	The unit has a modulator, a simple way of getting the signals to another room , sadly missing from new receivers built for flat screens. The tv picture can be modulated ( put onto ) an aerial cable signal anywhere in the tv band ( ch21 to 69) and tuned in on the second room analogue tuner.
	To the extreme left is the RS232 socket. The Manhattan website has a superb editor to use with the receiver, channels can be edited into groups, deleted, moved and saved using the software on a PC and a 'NULL MODEM' cable
The supplied instruction book is reasonably detailed, there is an error in the 'move channel' instruction, to move a channel to a different position in the channel list. mark it with the ok button, ok again, shift the highlight to the new position and press BLUE. One reported failure is the sound usually on very weak channels, fortunately just turning off and back on is all that is required to restore operation.	The Above pictures show the xtf model, the only difference being the xtcm has card slots and a CAM slot with multicrypt decoder
The Multicrypt decoder standard with the xtcm model works with any of the Czech viewing cards SkyLink, CSLink, T&T, Gital. The decoder works with the digiTurk cards and the Al Jazeera Sports cards and many other common cards.	Overall a brilliant receiver, well constructed and laid out, with very easy remote. Over the last two years of installing the black case model only one actual faulty receiver has been reported.
	Card and CAM slot in the xtcm model