CONTENTS

GENERAL INFORMATION P1

Preface P1
Main Features P1
For your safety P2

ACCESSORY P3

PANEL P4
Front Panel P4
Rear Panel P4

SYSTEM CONNECTION P5

RCU P6

QUICK INSTALLATION P7

MENU OPERATION P8

Main Page P8
TV P8
Radio P8
EPG P9
System P10
Games P15

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TECHNICAL SPECIFICATION
GENERAL INFORMATION
Preface

Thank you for selecting C7000 Digital Cable Receiver. We purchase the perfection in
every steps of the product during design, development, manufacture, check and market.
Our diligent, innovative and united we will try our best to satisfy you, provide you faster and
better service. Through our product, you will enter into a colourful world, where you can get
information in digital era conveniently and enjoy the wonderful modern life.
We will reserve the improvement rights of all products described in this manual. Due to
continued product improvements, the specifications are subject to change without notice.
Please read this manual carefully before you do any operation.

Main Features

1. Conditional access system support

2. Support Video Broadcasting function
3. Software update online
4. High output resolution
5. Change the channel rapidly
6. Automatic memory when power off
7. Fully support to 7 days Electronic Program Guide
8. Strong program setup function
9. Parental Lock Function
10. Turn on/off the power automatically by Timer Setting
11. Subtitle Support
12. NTSC/PAL Convert Automatically

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GENERAL INFORMATION
For Your Safety
To avoid electric-shock hazards, do not
open the cabinet; refer servicing to
qualified personnel only.
Do not expose the receiver under the
sunlight. And keep it away from the heat
source.
When the abnormal phenomenon occur,
you should cut off the power immediately.
Switch the receiver off whenever it remains
out of service for an extended period.
Keep the receiver away from flower vases,
tubs, sinks, etc., in order to avoid
damaging the equipment.
Do not block ventilation holes of the
Receiver so that air can circulate freely.
Do not touch the receiver during thunder,
since that might create electric-shock
hazards.
Be sure to turn the Receiver off and
disconnect the AC power cord before
cleaning the Receiver surface. If the
surface is dirty, wipe clean with a
cloth which has been dipped in a weak
soap-andwater solution and wrung out
thoroughly, and then wipe again with a dry
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cloth.
 ACCESSORY
Unpacking

Remote Battery User’s Guide

yellow
white
red

Video cable (yellow), Audio cable (white, red)

General Operation

Throughout this manual you will notice that the everyday operation of the receiver is based
on a series of user friendly on screen display and menus. These menus will help you get the
most from your receiver, guiding you through installation, channel organizing, viewing and
many other functions.

All functions can be carried out using the buttons on the RCU, and some of the
functions can also be carried out using the buttons on the front panel.

The receiver is easy to use, always at your command and adaptable for future
advances.

Please be aware that new software may change the functionality of the receiver.

Should you experience any difficulties with the operation of your receiver, please consult the
relevant section of this manual, including the Problem Shooting, or alternatively call your
dealer or a customer service adviser.

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PANEL
Front Panel

Rear Panel

CVBS: Connect video to TV using RCA jack.

1. OFF/ON
2. VIDEO: Connect video to TV using RCA jack.
3. AUDIO L/R: Two audio outputs, left audio and right audio, connect to the Hi-Stereo or TV.
4. RF OUT: Connect to another receiver
5. LOOP OUT: Connect to another receiver
6. CABLE IN: Connect to antenna

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CONNECTION

SPDIF VIDEO RIGHT LEFT

Signal Output
(Optional)

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RCU
RCU
Key Function
Turns power ON/OFF

When watching a channel, mute the sound

0~9 Enter number of the required menu item or

select a channel number to watch
PPV Press this key to buy PPV programs

CH+,CH Channel up and channel down

V+,V When watching a channel, adjust the volume

Page up Moves up a page in the list

Page down Moves down a page in the list

Press this key one time to run menu onscreen,

MENU
and call command box
Executes the selected item in the menu screen
OK
or enters the desired value in any input mode Press
this key to move to the next higher or lower item in the
menu
Press this key to move to the left or right item in the
menu
Returns to the previous menu on the menu
EXIT screen or escape from the menu
AUDIO Selects the different audio track

Subt Subtitles

Help Help menu

STATUS Show the information of the product, such as

signal strength and quality
CCD Close Caption

SET Press this key to enter into Program editor menu

GUIDE Calls up the Guide

MAIL Press this key to enter into MAIL menu

FAV Display the favorite channel list

TRACK Selects the different audio track

INFO Shows information of the current channel

MOSAIC Not available

Parental Set up the parental

Find Channel search

TV/RADIO Switches between TV and Radio mode

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 QUICK INSTALLATION
Quick Installation

Thank you for purchasing this receiver. For the first use this receiver, please refer to the
following steps.

1 Referring to the above system connections in page 4, 5 make sure that the TV signal,
TV set and Receiver are connected well.

Turn on the TV set and switch to Video/AV mode. Turn on the receiver and insert the
CA card into the slot correctly. 2
Face the metal interface down to the ground and insert the card into the slot according to
the arrow direction drawn on the Smart Card. Note: During the powering on or the
initializing, please avoid to remove or insert the Smart Card often in order not to damage
the receiver or the SMART Card, even in the whole operation process.

3 Just press the ok on the screen You will achieve the auto search
function.

Note: For the newly-bought receiver or there is no program list in the receiver, the
message box There is no channel stored, auto search now? (Make sure the signal is
input correctly) will be displayed on the screen when you power on the receiver. Press
OK key to start searching.

4 Press OK key on the RCU enter into program list window.

5 Press keys to select the channel, press OK key at the selected channel
to view it in full-screen, or press EXIT key to normal mode.

6 In normal TV/Radio mode, press keys on the RCU to adjust the

volume. Press keys to change the channel.

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MENU OPERATION

To enter into main page:

In normal TV/Radio mode, press MENU key on the RCU.

Main page consists of 5 items:

- TV

- RADIO
- EPG
- SYSTEM
- GAMES
Use keys to select the item that you want to operate, and press OK key
to enter into their windows. In main page window, press EXIT key to return the normal
TV/Radio mode.
In normal mode or main page window, press TV RADIO EPG NVOD keys on the
RCU to enter into TV window RADIO window EPG window and NVOD directly.

Note
1. Use keys on the RCU to operate menu completely, or use keys on the front panel to
operate the part menus.
2. Make sure the CA card is inserted into the slot correctly, so that you can view
programs and operate menus fluently.
3. There are some prompts at the bottom of the menus for reference.

TV

In main page window, there are two ways to enter into the full-screen TV mode:
select TV item and OK key, or press TV/RADIO key on the RCU directly.

In normal TV mode, press numeric keys (0-9) or keys to select the program
that you want to view.

RADIO
In main page window, there are two ways to enter into Radio broadcasting mode:
select RADIO item and OK key; or press TV/RADIO key on the RCU directly.

In normal Radio mode, press numeric keys (0-9) or key to select the program
that you want to listen to.

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MENU OPERATION
EPG
EPG equals to one electronic program guide, from which you can look up all the programs
in a week. The contents shown in this window are provided by the front-end operator. In
main menu, move cursor to EPG item and press OK key to enter into this window directly.

Move keys to select the desired channel in TV

channel list . The recent one week's ( 7 days )
program guides of selected channel are displayed on
the bottom column. Up-left PIG is displaying the selected
channel, press OK key to view in full-screen.

Press keys to switch between the channel list column and the channel guide
list column. In the channel guide list, press the numeric keys(1-7) or keys to
select from Monday to Sunday. In the program guide list of selected date, press
keys to select up or down. Select the desired program guide and press OK key
to book it. If you want to cancel the booking, press OK key once again. Press INFO key at
selected program guide to view its detail description.

In this window, press green key on the RCU to enter into Booking Manage window.
Press EXIT or RECALL key to return to window.

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MENU OPERATION

In main page window, select SYSTEM item and

press OK key to enter into system option menu.
This menu includes four important items: channel Prog,
System Setting, CA Information and Default.

Through channel manage menu, users can search

channels, view and edit the channel list, manage and
book the channels as like.

In channel Prog menu, select Channel Edit item, press OK key to enter into TV
Channel Edit window. In this window, you can use colour keys on the RCU to
favorite, Move, Lock and Delete the channels as you like.

In channel edit, select the channel that you want to add

into the favorite list and press red key on the RCU.

Press key to select in favor TV channel, and press

OK key to add/del favorite.

In channel list, select the channel that you want to

move and press green key, then mark will be
displayed at the back of selected channel. Use keys to
move the channel to the desired position, then press
green key or OK key to save the new position.

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MENU OPERATION

In channel list, select the channel that you want to

lock and press yellow key, the mark will be
displayed at the back of selected channel. For the next
time in this window, you can lock the channels by
pressing yellow key directly.

In channel list, select the channel that you want to d e l e

t e a n d p r e s s b l u e k e y , t h e n mark will be
displayed at the back of selected channel.
If you want to cancel the deletion, please press blue
key once again.
In the same way, you can delete more channels.

In TV admin window, after setting, press exit key to exit. System will pop up a message box
for your confirmation. Press OK key to save and return to the previous menu, otherwise
press exit key to return to the previous menu.

Do the same operations as 1.1 Edit, here we don't explain any more..

In menu, select manual search and press OK key to enter into search Channel Prog by
hand window. Referring to the operator's parameters, you can add channels by yourself.
We suggest that users had better to remain the original settings.

Begin Fre: Press key to select this item. Use

keys to move the cursor to the value that you want to
change, then press numeric keys (0-9) or keys
to change. After setting, press OK key to save the result.
End Fre: The operation is the same as begin fre.
Symbol Rate operation as begin fre.
QAM Style Press key to select proper modulator
type.

After setting, move cursor to start button, press OK key to enter into the searching window.
This window is the same as 1.4 automatic search window, here we don't explain any
more .

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MEMU OPERATION

In Channel Prog menu select Auto search item and press OK key. In auto search
window system will search programs according to the present RF channel list

For the first searching, all searched TV channels, Radio channels, Information channels
will be displayed on the list in order. If you have searched channels before, this time
only the new searched channels will be displayed on the list.

Through three color dynamic bars, users can know

searching progress, signal quality and strength of
current RF channel. The newly searching results are
refreshing all the time in the down line.

During the searching, you can press EXIT key to

cancel. After searching, press EXIT key to return the
normal mode.

channel scan option as 1.4 automatic search.

In channel prog menu, select booking manage item and press OK key to enter into booking
manage window. If there is no booked channel, the list will be empty. If you want to book
channels, please refer to EPG.

Suppose that you have booked several channels

already. In this window, you can press keys or
keys to look up the booked channels.
If you want to cancel one booked channel, move
cursor to this channel and press OK key. You will find that
the booked channel will disappear from current window.

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 MENU OPERATION

In system page window, select system setting item and

press OK key to enter into system setting menu. This
menu includes five important items : F r e q u e n c
y s e t u p , T V & R a d i o s e t , M e n u setting,
Power setting and Password set.

In this window, user can edit the main frequency,

NOVD, date broadcast, Symbol rate and QAM Style.
Press number 0-9 to modify the parameters.

In TV & Radio Set window, user can adjust the audio, modulator, screen format and mode
according to the actual affection.
Select among AUTO, PAL and NTSC.
Select proper ratio among AUTO, 4:3
and 16:9.
Select proper mode among AUTO,
PANSCAN, LETTERBOX.
Press keys to select among left
right mixture and stereo.

UHF Channel: Press keys to select among 3 and 4.

Note: Please remain the default settings in order not to effect your viewing.

Press keys to select the

language.
Press keys to select the
system time.

Select among 3 seconds to 10

seconds.

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MENU OPERATION

Auto Off: Select among NO, Today and Every day.

Off Time: User can not edit it.
Auto on: Select among NO, Today and Every day.
On Time: User can not edit it.

It provides three setting version program lock in the

systems, Program Lock, menu lock and STB lock . The
default mode is unlocked. You can switch between Lock
and unlock mode by pressing OK key on the items you
selected. When the selected items in lock mode they will
be marked with " "

Program Lock: Parents can lock the programs which is not suitable for their children to
watch by pressing OK on the program, and the pane in front of the program will be
marked with " ",after that consumers can lock the programs they selected in 1.4 TV
Admin.
Menu lock: Do the same operations as the STB Lock.
STB Lock: You can use STB Lock by pressing OK on it. It will be marked with
So when you turn on the STB it will pop up the pass word window every time.

Input old pass word: Input the pass word by pressing number keys 0-9.It will ask you to input
it again when the old password is not corrected.
Input new pass word Input the pass word by pressing number keys 0-9
Confirm new pass word Press number key 0-9 to input new pass word again. It will ask
you to input pass word again if it is difference in twice input.
Note The default password is: 0000. please safekeeping your new password or it will
influence your operation. If new pass word lost, please contact service provider.

In system page window, select CA Information item and press OK key to enter into system
setting menu. This menu includes two important items: Password set and Smart card
information.

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 MENU OPERATION

Channel scan option as 2.5 passwords set.

In CA information window, select smart card Information item and press OK key to enter into.
This menu includes two important items: Password set and Smart card information.

In CA Information, you can know: smart card basic information, PP information, parents lock
setting and user view control.

In System menu, move cursor to default item and press OK key.

System will pop up the warning message box, select OK

button and press OK key to restore to the factory status.

After restoring, all searched channels are cleared.

System will pop up the are you sure to clear all the
channel into window. Once OK key is pressed on the OK
button, system will start searching channels, otherwise
press EXIT key.

Note: when the receiver is restored to the factory status, all parameters and the searched
channels will be erased.

Games

It's provides four games in system , They are:

Tetris, Gobang, Sakoban, Greedy Snake. Press OK on
the game you selected to start it, and press EXIT to
quit.

In playing, press INFO on RCU, it will pop up the help

window to tell you how to play this game and some
other information about the game.

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TROUBLE SHOOTING
Problem Possible causes What to do
The display on the front Check that the main cable is plugged into
panel does not light up. Main cable is not connected. the power socket.

No sound or picture, but the

The receiver is in standby mode. Press the standby button.
front panel shows red light.

The connecting between the cable and Make sure the connecting between the
No sound and picture. the set top box is not well or the single cable and the DCR well.
is weak.

Bad picture / blocking

Cable single is too weak. Adjust the strength of signal.
error.

Battery exhausted. Change the batteries.

The RCU is not working.

Aim RCU at the receiver , or check that
RCU is incorrectly aimed.
nothing blocks the front panel.

Note : If you have tried all of the actions suggested above, without solving the problem,
please contact your dealer or service provider.

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TECHNICAL SPECIFICATION
C7000 receiver is digital cable receiver, fully comply with Chinese standard and
European DVB general standards.

Software
Conditional Access CA support Electronic Program Guide EPG
Software update on line automatically Rapid change the channel
Automatic searching channels

Hardware
Main Chip STi5197-BFBC
Flash ROM 8 Mbytes
SDRAM 32 Mbytes

Decoder
Input Frequency 47-862MHz
Modulator QAM 16/32/64/128/256
RF Input F-female, 75
RF loop output F-female

Video
Standard MPEG-II MP@ML
Video mode NTSC/PAL/PALN/PALM
Video format 4:3 or 16:9
Output Standard 720 480(NTSC),720 576(PAL)
Video Output CVBS RF OUT
Output Impedance 75
Audio
Standard: MPEG-II
Sample frequency 20-20KHz
Audio Output RCA connector ( Left audio+right audio)X2
Output Impedance 600

Software upgrade
RS232 connector support

Input Voltage
Power Supply 90 ~ 240V 50/60Hz
Consumption 20W (maximum)
Input Plug CSA

Smart Card
Standard TDK73S8024

Parameters
Pure Size 280 L 178 W 45 H mm
Weight 2.0kg
Operation Temperature: 0 ~ 40

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