Captiveworks

Captiveworks FTA Satellite Receiver

Captiveworks FTA receiver has been designed keeping in mind user friendliness and is available for affordable price. Captiveworks is one such brand which has set standards for other brands in this field to follow and is the preferred choice in 3rd generation satellite receivers.

It has PVR functionality as well as enhanced recording facility where you can easily record and play and also save television programs to any hard drive. For those who are television multi-taskers, the PIG & zoom functions will be quite fascinating. The FTA satellite receiver consists of Conexant processor (200 mHz) and RAM (32MB) so that you do not have to sacrifice on performance.

In a situation where you need to update the software, the RS-232 port comes in handy and lets you complete the required updates. Other notable things about Captiveworks receiver is that it has 6000 channel programmable capacity, parental lock and master personal identification number (PIN) code.

Captiveworks receiver also lets you play all the favorite MPEG 2 movies/videos, pictures and MP3 music on it. The things which are included with the Captiveworks FTA box are the RCA cables, null modem, diseqc switch, universal remote, AAA batteries and the user manual.

Captiveworks is also called as high end DVB receiver and has several features which are well beyond functions of normal free to air satellite receivers of similar price range. The other notable characteristics of these satellite receivers which run on Linux are:

  1. Satellite as well as terrestrial broadcast reception
  2. Live television rewind & pause
  3. Digital recording
  4. Environment (X windows) & Java GUI
  5. Firefox browser with plugin support
  6. Latest 5th generation tuner giving enhanced reception
  7. DVB-S through open source VDR
  8. Software upgrades using storage device (USB) or internet
  9. DDR II RAM (512 MB) which is expandable up to 8 GB
  10. 1 GB  flash drive

As you can figure out that this is very close to being a computer which runs FTA software to provide you best quality FTA reception and also has numerous other entertainment options for you to explore & use.