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PAL Version NTSC Version SECAM Version Software version 1.204 VC/MG/ID And later versions Article number: 11803677 TANDBERG TELEVISION ASA, Philip Pedersensvei 20, PO Box 322, N-1324 Lysaker, Norway Tel: +47 67 11 62 00, Fax: +47 67 11 62 01...
TATUS ISPLAY 5.2.1 NLOCKING THE TATUS ISPLAY 5.2.2 OCKING THE TATUS ISPLAY TT1200 M AIN MENU TANDBERG TELEVISION ASA, Philip Pedersensvei 20, PO Box 322, N-1324 Lysaker, Norway Tel: +47 67 11 62 00, Fax: +47 67 11 62 01...
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AVOURITES 5.6.1 ELECT MENU 5.6.2 DD MENU 5.6.3 ELETE MENU ROPERTIES 6. TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS 7. APPENDICES TANDBERG TELEVISION ASA, Philip Pedersensvei 20, PO Box 322, N-1324 Lysaker, Norway Tel: +47 67 11 62 00, Fax: +47 67 11 62 01...
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(or back). If anything fails, leave the repairs to a qualified service technician. TANDBERG TELEVISION ASA, Philip Pedersensvei 20, PO Box 322, N-1324 Lysaker, Norway Tel: +47 67 11 62 00, Fax: +47 67 11 62 01...
1.1 Description of the TT1200 MPEG2-DVB Decoder The TT1200 is a product in the Tandberg Television ASA growing MPEG2 receiver family. This one channel 1U unit is designed for professional transcoding of one TV service into PAL, PAL M, SECAM or NTSC video and one stereo audio pair.
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Fixed Key descrambling is changed from 64 bit control word to 48 bit control word (BISS mode TANDBERG TELEVISION ASA, Philip Pedersensvei 20, PO Box 322, N-1324 Lysaker, Norway Tel: +47 67 11 62 00, Fax: +47 67 11 62 01...
2. Installing the unit 2.1 General The TT1200 MPEG2-DVB is designed for installation in standard 19 inch rack. Be sure that there is sufficient space in front of the air inlet and outlet in order to provide the fan powered ventilation of the unit with fresh air.
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The TT1200 menu tree is dynamic, and some menus are present only if certain hardware is installed. > These menus are marked with a *. Menu entries which contains submenus end with TANDBERG TELEVISION ASA, Philip Pedersensvei 20, PO Box 322, N-1324 Lysaker, Norway Tel: +47 67 11 62 00, Fax: +47 67 11 62 01...
If this does not help, check signal levels and the external cables etc. TANDBERG TELEVISION ASA, Philip Pedersensvei 20, PO Box 322, N-1324 Lysaker, Norway Tel: +47 67 11 62 00, Fax: +47 67 11 62 01...
PAL or SECAM video, and that this menu entry is only active if PAL or SECAM is selected in the Video format menu. TT1200 supports two types of subtitling: TANDBERG TELEVISION ASA, Philip Pedersensvei 20, PO Box 322, N-1324 Lysaker, Norway Tel: +47 67 11 62 00, Fax: +47 67 11 62 01...
(the priority list can be viewed by scrolling the menu under the selected language.) If no predefined TANDBERG TELEVISION ASA, Philip Pedersensvei 20, PO Box 322, N-1324 Lysaker, Norway Tel: +47 67 11 62 00, Fax: +47 67 11 62 01...
Left arrow cancels the save operation. Note that the following parameters are saved: • Satellite parameters for the current transport stream TANDBERG TELEVISION ASA, Philip Pedersensvei 20, PO Box 322, N-1324 Lysaker, Norway Tel: +47 67 11 62 00, Fax: +47 67 11 62 01...
(Yes) the entry will be deleted. If you press the Left arrow (No) nothing will happen. TANDBERG TELEVISION ASA, Philip Pedersensvei 20, PO Box 322, N-1324 Lysaker, Norway Tel: +47 67 11 62 00, Fax: +47 67 11 62 01...
In these versions of TT1200, there is a blind plate over the Irdeto CA smart card reader. Figure 5 TT1200 smart card interface TANDBERG TELEVISION ASA, Philip Pedersensvei 20, PO Box 322, N-1324 Lysaker, Norway Tel: +47 67 11 62 00, Fax: +47 67 11 62 01...
The AUDIO connector pair is related to the video output of the TV-channel. TANDBERG TELEVISION ASA, Philip Pedersensvei 20, PO Box 322, N-1324 Lysaker, Norway Tel: +47 67 11 62 00, Fax: +47 67 11 62 01...
TT1200 from a PC through a RS232 Communication cable. There are two remote control protocols available: Tandberg Television RS232 remote control, which is described in the following documents: • External decoder control protocol (RS232) , protocol definition •...
The figure shows the situation when there are no alarms in the system. ALARM Figure 8 The alarm relay pinning TANDBERG TELEVISION ASA, Philip Pedersensvei 20, PO Box 322, N-1324 Lysaker, Norway Tel: +47 67 11 62 00, Fax: +47 67 11 62 01...
5.4.5.3. If one of the currently present status messages represent an Alarm condition, the alarm relay will be set. TANDBERG TELEVISION ASA, Philip Pedersensvei 20, PO Box 322, N-1324 Lysaker, Norway Tel: +47 67 11 62 00, Fax: +47 67 11 62 01...
Cursor moved one left Cursor moved one right ÃThÃs r)Ã !$%' Figure 12 Example of editing numbers TANDBERG TELEVISION ASA, Philip Pedersensvei 20, PO Box 322, N-1324 Lysaker, Norway Tel: +47 67 11 62 00, Fax: +47 67 11 62 01...
This description goes through all possible menu displays on the TT1200. Because of the various ways of configuring the decoder, the menu tree may differ from decoder to decoder. TANDBERG TELEVISION ASA, Philip Pedersensvei 20, PO Box 322, N-1324 Lysaker, Norway Tel: +47 67 11 62 00, Fax: +47 67 11 62 01...
5.4.5) in the case where PAL or SECAM is selected. This is the same as Figure 2, but is repeated here for convenience. TANDBERG TELEVISION ASA, Philip Pedersensvei 20, PO Box 322, N-1324 Lysaker, Norway Tel: +47 67 11 62 00, Fax: +47 67 11 62 01...
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The number in the upper right corner (M:) gives the margin of when the signal reached a signal level of 2x10e-4 in the viterbi decoder in the demodulator. TANDBERG TELEVISION ASA, Philip Pedersensvei 20, PO Box 322, N-1324 Lysaker, Norway Tel: +47 67 11 62 00, Fax: +47 67 11 62 01...
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This description applies both for selecting TV service, and Audio2 and 3 services (if available). Please refer to Figure 17 for an overview of the menus. TANDBERG TELEVISION ASA, Philip Pedersensvei 20, PO Box 322, N-1324 Lysaker, Norway Tel: +47 67 11 62 00, Fax: +47 67 11 62 01...
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Language and PID info menus disappear (as they all are based on the contents of PSI/SI tables). TANDBERG TELEVISION ASA, Philip Pedersensvei 20, PO Box 322, N-1324 Lysaker, Norway Tel: +47 67 11 62 00, Fax: +47 67 11 62 01...
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If System Options ⇒ Menu Lock is set to On, the Advanced menu has to be unlocked by entering the following code: TANDBERG TELEVISION ASA, Philip Pedersensvei 20, PO Box 322, N-1324 Lysaker, Norway Tel: +47 67 11 62 00, Fax: +47 67 11 62 01...
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TT1200 Irdeto version. Note that it is not possible to select this mode for Viaccess, Conax, Nagravision or Mediaguard versions of TT1200. TANDBERG TELEVISION ASA, Philip Pedersensvei 20, PO Box 322, N-1324 Lysaker, Norway Tel: +47 67 11 62 00, Fax: +47 67 11 62 01...
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Note however, that a special software version (version number ending with MG) must be used in order to use Mediaguard CA. TANDBERG TELEVISION ASA, Philip Pedersensvei 20, PO Box 322, N-1324 Lysaker, Norway Tel: +47 67 11 62 00, Fax: +47 67 11 62 01...
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This section describes briefly the Vid. Setup and PTS Setup, while the following subsections describe the menus in more detail. TANDBERG TELEVISION ASA, Philip Pedersensvei 20, PO Box 322, N-1324 Lysaker, Norway Tel: +47 67 11 62 00, Fax: +47 67 11 62 01...
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708 must be typed in. Remember that the original configuration is correct in terms of DVB compliant systems and should not be changed unless absolutely necessary. TANDBERG TELEVISION ASA, Philip Pedersensvei 20, PO Box 322, N-1324 Lysaker, Norway Tel: +47 67 11 62 00, Fax: +47 67 11 62 01...
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Cut sides 16/9. If set to On, this parameter converts 16/9 video to 4:3 by cutting off the left and right sides of the picture. TANDBERG TELEVISION ASA, Philip Pedersensvei 20, PO Box 322, N-1324 Lysaker, Norway Tel: +47 67 11 62 00, Fax: +47 67 11 62 01...
16:9 video format to 4:3 is done by “cutting” off the left and right part of the picture, to make it fit on a 4:3 screen. TANDBERG TELEVISION ASA, Philip Pedersensvei 20, PO Box 322, N-1324 Lysaker, Norway Tel: +47 67 11 62 00, Fax: +47 67 11 62 01...
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The third mode, Transparent, is only significant if the selected audio is of the dual mono type; i.e. two mono audios sent as one stream in the MPEG transport TANDBERG TELEVISION ASA, Philip Pedersensvei 20, PO Box 322, N-1324 Lysaker, Norway Tel: +47 67 11 62 00, Fax: +47 67 11 62 01...
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MHz frequency of the encoder. This filter may be turned off. If so, the local 27 MHz is controlled in the "27 MHz offs." menu TANDBERG TELEVISION ASA, Philip Pedersensvei 20, PO Box 322, N-1324 Lysaker, Norway Tel: +47 67 11 62 00, Fax: +47 67 11 62 01...
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Off: Incoming PCR and PTS values are not used at all. PCR: Not used Video PTS: Not used TANDBERG TELEVISION ASA, Philip Pedersensvei 20, PO Box 322, N-1324 Lysaker, Norway Tel: +47 67 11 62 00, Fax: +47 67 11 62 01...
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Appendix 1. The Alarm setup menu is shown in Figure 22. TANDBERG TELEVISION ASA, Philip Pedersensvei 20, PO Box 322, N-1324 Lysaker, Norway Tel: +47 67 11 62 00, Fax: +47 67 11 62 01...
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In this case the message Remote controlled will be displayed when attempting to enter the RS232 setup menu. TANDBERG TELEVISION ASA, Philip Pedersensvei 20, PO Box 322, N-1324 Lysaker, Norway Tel: +47 67 11 62 00, Fax: +47 67 11 62 01...
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Parity: off, even or odd Data bits: 5, 6, 7 or 8 Stop bits: 1, 1.5 or 2 TANDBERG TELEVISION ASA, Philip Pedersensvei 20, PO Box 322, N-1324 Lysaker, Norway Tel: +47 67 11 62 00, Fax: +47 67 11 62 01...
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5.4.5.4.2.2 Low Speed Data Output menu The Output menu is used to define the aux data output. TANDBERG TELEVISION ASA, Philip Pedersensvei 20, PO Box 322, N-1324 Lysaker, Norway Tel: +47 67 11 62 00, Fax: +47 67 11 62 01...
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The buffer size is in both cases 16kBytes. 5.4.5.5 Remote control menu This menu enables remote control and selects between the Tandberg Television protocol and a customer specific protocol. Note that if the Tandberg Television protocol is selected, the RS232 Setup menu will not be configurable and the data output can not be used.
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5.5 Status menu All the status information in a TT1200 is found in the Status menu. TANDBERG TELEVISION ASA, Philip Pedersensvei 20, PO Box 322, N-1324 Lysaker, Norway Tel: +47 67 11 62 00, Fax: +47 67 11 62 01...
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1025 PCR PID 1024 Figure 27 Status menu The Status menu consists of the following entries: TANDBERG TELEVISION ASA, Philip Pedersensvei 20, PO Box 322, N-1324 Lysaker, Norway Tel: +47 67 11 62 00, Fax: +47 67 11 62 01...
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Type in the offset seen and verify that the top line changes to the value 0.0000GHz. The TANDBERG TELEVISION ASA, Philip Pedersensvei 20, PO Box 322, N-1324 Lysaker, Norway Tel: +47 67 11 62 00, Fax: +47 67 11 62 01...
Clear, Descram, No access, Clear & CA, Incom SC/CA, Searching Clear, Descram, No access, Clear & CA, Incom SC/CA, Searching TANDBERG TELEVISION ASA, Philip Pedersensvei 20, PO Box 322, N-1324 Lysaker, Norway Tel: +47 67 11 62 00, Fax: +47 67 11 62 01...
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After inserting the Viaccess smart card into the decoder, the Viaccess consultation menu is enabled through CA-Module in the main menu as shown in Figure 29. TANDBERG TELEVISION ASA, Philip Pedersensvei 20, PO Box 322, N-1324 Lysaker, Norway Tel: +47 67 11 62 00, Fax: +47 67 11 62 01...
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5.5.4.2.3 Mediaguard CA-system Note that this section only applies to software versions x.xxxMG. TANDBERG TELEVISION ASA, Philip Pedersensvei 20, PO Box 322, N-1324 Lysaker, Norway Tel: +47 67 11 62 00, Fax: +47 67 11 62 01...
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Number of accesses authorised for current session. Decremented each time user accesses a session with a new session index. TANDBERG TELEVISION ASA, Philip Pedersensvei 20, PO Box 322, N-1324 Lysaker, Norway Tel: +47 67 11 62 00, Fax: +47 67 11 62 01...
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Useful information about the audio-and video signal, VBI functions are presented, as well as diagnostical information. The different status menus are described in detail in the following sections. TANDBERG TELEVISION ASA, Philip Pedersensvei 20, PO Box 322, N-1324 Lysaker, Norway Tel: +47 67 11 62 00, Fax: +47 67 11 62 01...
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Lists the status of the VBI functions. TANDBERG TELEVISION ASA, Philip Pedersensvei 20, PO Box 322, N-1324 Lysaker, Norway Tel: +47 67 11 62 00, Fax: +47 67 11 62 01...
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: MPEG-2 Layer [I,II, III] [kbits/s] Transfer rate [kHz] Sample rate [On, Off ] Protection bits TANDBERG TELEVISION ASA, Philip Pedersensvei 20, PO Box 322, N-1324 Lysaker, Norway Tel: +47 67 11 62 00, Fax: +47 67 11 62 01...
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The difference, in terms of milliseconds, to the respective audio PTS (Presentation Time Stamp). Positive values means that the audio is presented too late. TANDBERG TELEVISION ASA, Philip Pedersensvei 20, PO Box 322, N-1324 Lysaker, Norway Tel: +47 67 11 62 00, Fax: +47 67 11 62 01...
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Service Id’s and language selections associated with the current setup. It’s possible to save a configuration, select a previously saved configuration or delete a configuration. TANDBERG TELEVISION ASA, Philip Pedersensvei 20, PO Box 322, N-1324 Lysaker, Norway Tel: +47 67 11 62 00, Fax: +47 67 11 62 01...
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By pressing the Right arrow the operator acknowledges to save the new entry, Left arrow cancels the save operation. TANDBERG TELEVISION ASA, Philip Pedersensvei 20, PO Box 322, N-1324 Lysaker, Norway Tel: +47 67 11 62 00, Fax: +47 67 11 62 01...
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The HW Config. submenu displays the hardware modules in the TT1200 unit. The number (e.g. B1/) before the HW config menu is the hardware version. TANDBERG TELEVISION ASA, Philip Pedersensvei 20, PO Box 322, N-1324 Lysaker, Norway Tel: +47 67 11 62 00, Fax: +47 67 11 62 01...
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70 % cosinus roll off, BBC RD 1977/15 Eye height: > 90 % Delay relative to video: +/- 1 frame TANDBERG TELEVISION ASA, Philip Pedersensvei 20, PO Box 322, N-1324 Lysaker, Norway Tel: +47 67 11 62 00, Fax: +47 67 11 62 01...
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Storage: -40 to +70 C Relative humidity: 5 - 95 % These specifications may be altered without notice. TANDBERG TELEVISION ASA, Philip Pedersensvei 20, PO Box 322, N-1324 Lysaker, Norway Tel: +47 67 11 62 00, Fax: +47 67 11 62 01...
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The DVB ASI input module is out of sync 7ssr Ãr sy The input rate is too high TANDBERG TELEVISION ASA, Philip Pedersensvei 20, PO Box 322, N-1324 Lysaker, Norway Tel: +47 67 11 62 00, Fax: +47 67 11 62 01...
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Warning is cleared when a page is displayed on time 9W7TiÃGyÃÃ The coding method is not supported by the decoder. (HW limitations) TANDBERG TELEVISION ASA, Philip Pedersensvei 20, PO Box 322, N-1324 Lysaker, Norway Tel: +47 67 11 62 00, Fax: +47 67 11 62 01...
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An error in PTC/PCR has been detected. It may be that wrong PCR is selected. 9W7TiÃ8uh ÃÃ The coding method is not supported by the decoder. (SW limitations) TANDBERG TELEVISION ASA, Philip Pedersensvei 20, PO Box 322, N-1324 Lysaker, Norway Tel: +47 67 11 62 00, Fax: +47 67 11 62 01...