Triax TSC114 - anyone got their hands on one yet?

dubber · 23-02-2012 12:30pm #1

I presume if it's been certified and due at a trade show next week someone must have, care to share your thoughts on it?

Anyone had any idea of its price point, a little higher than indicated below I expect?

http://tvsatstore.com/index.php/triax-tsc114-combi-receiver.html

John mac · 23-02-2012 2:07pm

Not bad . for €8.23 delivered.

wonder if you go complete the transaction would they have to send it to you for that price?

kelsca · 23-02-2012 2:17pm

Have a look at the "due in stock"date:D

Digital Satellite TV · 23-02-2012 3:00pm

kelsca wrote: »

Have a look at the "due in stock"date:D

Maybe he know's something we don't:D Also 1 euro is a bargain!!!

pistolpetes11 · 23-02-2012 3:44pm

vanjak have them in stock for delivery today to trade €122 ex and prob 10-15 if getting delivered. , plus a couple of freebies with the offer when you input the code in there email.

1 - Triax Zone 2 Satellite Dish (DP/03A)
1 - Triax TSI 004 Universal Single LNB (LNB/11A)
1 - Triax Zone 2 Converter (SDA/02C)

roscoepico · 23-02-2012 5:16pm

Looks exactly like a ST HD 537 to me! I'd say you'll find the Saorview Logo on the EPG screen and that will be the only difference. £99.50 + VAT + Delivery from Vanjak - £130.40. Or the 537 that is more than likely the same same box for a little less from TV trade - €126.77! Few quid for a Saorview Logo, we shall see! I like the 537 if the 114 is as good I'll buy it in, I would'nt buy anything else if it has a 7 day EPG on the Satellite stations!!!

Tony · 23-02-2012 6:10pm

I doubt it will have a 7 day EPG for UK satellite. From emails I've been receiving today the 537 is being sold at much reduced pricing from wholesalers to clear out stock.

Premier · 23-02-2012 6:57pm

No 7 day epg on sat, I cant see it taking off nearly twice the price of a 120 just for the logo?

byte · 23-02-2012 10:10pm

I believe the new TSC114 is based on the TR112 chassis. I'd like to get my hands on one to mess with.

Also, I'm keen to get my hands on the Walker combi that's supposedly coming through approval stages too. Sounds promising!

dubber · 23-02-2012 10:55pm

byte wrote: »

Also, I'm keen to get my hands on the Walker combi that's supposedly coming through approval stages too. Sounds promising!

Did I read somewhere that the Walker combi may also have (a form of) the Freesat EPG?

byte · 23-02-2012 11:17pm

dubber wrote: »

Did I read somewhere that the Walker combi may also have (a form of) the Freesat EPG?

Indeed, that's what I was told also. Shall wait and see. Hard to know how good or bad it'll be coming from Vestel...

Digital Satellite TV · 24-02-2012 7:59am

byte wrote: »

Indeed, that's what I was told also.

+1 and another competitor box to the Walker with the Freesat like menus too in the offing so we hear, not sure on who/what/where etc yet though.

Digital Satellite TV · 24-02-2012 8:02am

byte wrote: »

I believe the new TSC114 is based on the TR112 chassis. I'd like to get my hands on one to mess with.

That's what we were told too. With the new firmware update on the tr112, it is definitely the best official saorview box now. I know they all have the same channels, pic quality much the same but just for extra functionality like the PVR stuff and the media player so it should be a winner. Price is the only thing maybe that will put off the punters. Will have to see, looking forward to it arriving anyway.

Compton · 24-02-2012 10:29am

Digital Satellite TV wrote: »

That's what we were told too. With the new firmware update on the tr112, it is definitely the best official saorview box now. I know they all have the same channels, pic quality much the same but just for extra functionality like the PVR stuff and the media player so it should be a winner. Price is the only thing maybe that will put off the punters. Will have to see, looking forward to it arriving anyway.

Any idea of the price yet?

kodscoll · 24-02-2012 2:28pm

Triax TSC114 reported to be a better receiver than the previous 537 as its not been rushed to market like the 537 and will retail approx €180-€200 inc so its gonna be dear but if its as good as Triax say then it'll be worth it in the long run especially as the Ferguson Ariva 120 has been having a lot of problems ie. "ASH" on display then kaput ;-(

excollier · 24-02-2012 5:28pm

pistolpetes11 wrote: »

vanjak have them in stock for delivery today to trade €122 ex and prob 10-15 if getting delivered. , plus a couple of freebies with the offer when you input the code in there email.

1 - Triax Zone 2 Satellite Dish (DP/03A)
1 - Triax TSI 004 Universal Single LNB (LNB/11A)
1 - Triax Zone 2 Converter (SDA/02C)

Delivery €12.18, so €160.17each, but that is the same delivery charge for one box as for several....cheaper by the dozen!
Trade only!!

leex · 24-02-2012 5:38pm

Appearing here already - http://www.ebay.ie/itm/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=200718668323&clk_rvr_id=318382179134

excollier · 24-02-2012 5:40pm

Not bad.

ISAA · 24-02-2012 6:57pm

The ISAA team have received the new triax combo,

we will be publishing a basic review on our forum later tonight' also a ISAATV review, as a full review will take time with a good test period.

Regards,

Gerry

liamtech · 24-02-2012 7:05pm

ISAA wrote: »

The ISAA team have received the new triax combo, we will be publishing a basic review on our forum later tonight' also a ISAATV review, as a full review will take time with a good test period.

Regards,

Gerry

Can you put a link up to that review when its live? is it on the ISAA site

excollier · 24-02-2012 7:09pm

Triax are having Saorview/Saorsat event at the Red Cow on Monday if anyone is interested, 2.00pm-8.00pm, maybe this has already been posted, sorry if it has.

ISAA · 24-02-2012 7:48pm

liamtech wrote: »

Can you put a link up to that review when its live? is it on the ISAA site

A link from here will be available or go direct.

Regards

byte · 24-02-2012 8:04pm

Digital Satellite TV wrote: »

+1 and another competitor box to the Walker with the Freesat like menus too in the offing so we hear, not sure on who/what/where etc yet though.

Not a NordMende perchance? These are supposed to be coming out early Summer, presumably Vestel like Walker.

While the Walker may make use of the Freesat EPG data, it's unlikely that it'll have the Freesat features that have the box retune automatically as channels change frequency, etc. However, I'm not definite on that, just IMO.

dubber · 24-02-2012 10:02pm

byte wrote: »

Not a NordMende perchance? These are supposed to be coming out early Summer, presumably Vestel like Walker.

Do Triax use their own/a different platform?

STB · 24-02-2012 10:58pm

dubber wrote: »

Do Triax use their own/a different platform?

Triax are an ODM. Their boxes are not made by Vestel.

Vestel make all the other stuff and rebrand the licensed chipset/chassis for Walkers etc.

ISAA · 25-02-2012 12:47am

ISAA wrote: »

liamtech wrote: »

Can you put a link up to that review when its live? is it on the ISAA site

A link from here will be available or go direct.

Regards

On the ISAATV channel now, link on the front page of the ISAA web site.

The Cush · 25-02-2012 1:53am

ISAA wrote: »

On the ISAAtv channel now, goto saorsat test, on the ISAA web site and latested video or

http://www.youtube.com/user/isaatv

I see DVB-S listed in the installation menu and at the LNB input, is DVB-S2 available?

Are the Ka-Band frequencies included?

PressTheButton · 25-02-2012 2:01am

Triax TSC 114 Saorview HD Combi Receiver comes with ethernet port - wasn't expecting that. Possibilities there...
Thanks for video ISAA. Look forward to full review.

zg3409 · 25-02-2012 2:22am

Movie with scary sound here:
http://youtu.be/gdTypF5RlBI

dubber · 25-02-2012 10:07am

No now/next for sat channels in the EPG? :-(

Deep diver · 25-02-2012 10:36am

I see the ISAA team have upload a review of the triax unit, and done a basic review also.

http://www.isaa.tv/cgi-bin/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1330126729/0#0

KeRbDoG · 25-02-2012 12:09pm

dubber wrote: »

No now/next for sat channels in the EPG? :-(

Fingers crossed its just a silly bug as not having now/next for the sat channels is a little silly. I can live without a 7-day epg

zg3409 · 25-02-2012 12:24pm

Does it have DiSEqC switching and if so which options 1.0 1.1 1.2, 2.0, 2.1, 2.2?

dubber · 25-02-2012 12:40pm

KeRbDoG wrote: »

Fingers crossed its just a silly bug as not having now/next for the sat channels is a little silly. I can live without a 7-day epg

and hopefully they've addressed the other foibles of the 537 box too ...

STB · 25-02-2012 1:27pm

zg3409 wrote: »

Does it have DiSEqC switching and if so which options 1.0 1.1 1.2, 2.0, 2.1, 2.2?

This box looks like its 28.2 only which would surprise me that Saorview didnt want one box that allows for all possibilities with Saorview, Saorsat and FTA 28.2.

Thing that jumped out at me is No Card slots from what I can see either.

Would I be right in saying that the 7 day epg on sat hasnt been "implemented".

dubber · 26-02-2012 12:45pm

Looking at the video again, seems like you can only record the terrestrial channel you're watching, channel switching isn't going to win any speed races either ... pity ... looks like another wait for the new walker combo

ISAA · 26-02-2012 12:54pm

I will be posting answers to your questions later today.

I,ve answered some of your questions above, and the answers are on the ISAA Forum, any other questions post them there as well.

regards,

Gerry

ISAA · 27-02-2012 1:10am

STB wrote: »

This box looks like its 28.2 only which would surprise me that Saorview didnt want one box that allows for all possibilities with Saorview, Saorsat and FTA 28.2.

Thing that jumped out at me is No Card slots from what I can see either.

Would I be right in saying that the 7 day epg on sat hasnt been "implemented".

Latest info about all of the above on our ISAATV channel.
Hope this helps.
I did more testing, saorsat,Astra, and Saorview, all prefect and worked very well.
easy to change all settings, and first class receiver.

dubber · 27-02-2012 7:46pm

Had a very quick play of one today, it seemed to work quite well and the remote felt quite nice. PQ didn't seem great, but as this is a "premium" box, I'll presume it has "premium" components and assume this can be sorted with calibration. Didin't get a chance to put it through its paces, but if it works as advertised I wouldn't be too disappointed with one of these. Of course, 7 day EPG would be nice, as would DLNA support and recording terrestrial channels in the same mux (edit - it looks like it can do this) - but I could probably live without those.

zg3409 · 27-02-2012 8:06pm

Brochure

dubber · 27-02-2012 9:16pm

TVtrade have a video up.

Tony · 27-02-2012 11:33pm

dubber wrote: »

Had a very quick play of one today,

Was this the one at the red cow hotel or somewhere else ?

KeRbDoG · 27-02-2012 11:35pm

Just ordered up one of these - will report back on how it compares to the likes of the Ferguson Ariva HDcombo

dubber · 27-02-2012 11:45pm

Tony wrote: »

Was this the one at the red cow hotel or somewhere else ?

Yes, the one at the red cow.

B bopp · 28-02-2012 12:15am

can someone please clarify something for me... whats the point in a box picking up saorview and saorsat together.. are they not the same channels..

KeRbDoG · 28-02-2012 12:33am

B bopp wrote: »

can someone please clarify something for me... whats the point in a box picking up saorview and saorsat together.. are they not the same channels..

That wouldn't make sense alright but the idea is that you can pickup Saorview and then other satellite services, like the Astra2 services from the UK. BBCs/ITVs/C4s etc/

zg3409 · 28-02-2012 1:04am

It's confusing. There are multiple boxes being launched.

There is the triax TSC114 which is the first certified Saorview Combo box. This is basically saorview with the free channels at 28.2. Seems like no 7 day guide on sat, no auto tuning on sat. Works fine for Saorview, so terrestrial part certified. PVR with single tuner one for sat 28.2 one for Saorview.

Then there is a triax Sat ONLY box (no name yet) with blue LED display on front. This does Saorsat (with certification soon) and DiSEqC switching for changing from Saorsat to 28.2 channels. It is only certified for Saorsat not freeview etc. Again no auto re-tuning of sat, no 7 day guide. This is also a PVR with single tuner.

Then there is triax's terrestrial only box (not new).

The Walker Sat only box (available in powercity etc) is the only box known to do Saorsat and some version of 7 day guide like Freesat, no one has done a proper review. Probably the best box for Saorsat the moment.

As clear as mud?

B bopp · 28-02-2012 1:09am

zg3409 wrote: »

It's confusing. There are multiple boxes being launched.

There is the triax TSC114 which is the first certified Saorview Combo box. This is basically saorview with the free channels at 28.2. Seems like no 7 day guide on sat, no auto tuning on sat. Works fine for Saorview, so terrestrial part certified. PVR with single tuner one for sat 28.2 one for Saorview.

Then there is a triax Sat ONLY box (no name yet) with blue LED display on front. This does Saorsat (with certification soon) and DiSEqC switching for changing from Saorsat to 28.2 channels. It is only certified for Saorsat not freeview etc. Again no auto re-tuning of sat, no 7 day guide. This is also a PVR with single tuner.

Then there is triax's terrestrial only box (not new).

The Walker Sat only box (available in powercity etc) is the only box known to do Saorsat and some version of 7 day guide like Freesat, no one has done a proper review. Probably the best box for Saorsat the moment.

As clear as mud?

Is the walker box out. does it do pvr

STB · 28-02-2012 1:20am

zg3409 wrote: »

It's confusing. There are multiple boxes being launched.

There is the triax TSC114 which is the first certified Saorview Combo box. This is basically saorview with the free channels at 28.2. Seems like no 7 day guide on sat, no auto tuning on sat. Works fine for Saorview, so terrestrial part certified. PVR with single tuner one for sat 28.2 one for Saorview.

Then there is a triax Sat ONLY box (no name yet) with blue LED display on front. This does Saorsat (with certification soon) and DiSEqC switching for changing from Saorsat to 28.2 channels. It is only certified for Saorsat not freeview etc. Again no auto re-tuning of sat, no 7 day guide. This is also a PVR with single tuner.

Then there is triax's terrestrial only box (not new).

The Walker Sat only box (available in powercity etc) is the only box known to do Saorsat and some version of 7 day guide like Freesat, no one has done a proper review. Probably the best box for Saorsat the moment.

As clear as mud?

There is no published min spec for Saorsat that I know of, so technically there is no certification process for the dvb-s2 end. Of course the ability to decode MPEG4 H264 video/MHEG5 middleware in DVB-S2 would be a requirement and Disesqc given RTE have long since acknowledged the usefullness of combi boxes an alternative method to combined fta reception and that may have been the way they have chosen to certify it under Saorview.

Auto tuning and 7 day epg Freesat API on 28.2 could not be a published requirement for any Saorsat product as it would condone reverse engineering of Huffman tables/Sky Openepg data which all these patches for the data would be.

That walker box 7 day epg must be an unofficial patch (I have yet to see it in action so I am dubious that they have copied some of the Freesat API to grab the data off the freesat transponder). Again even so, it would be grabbing just that, the epg data and not doing the auto re-tune. This seems to be the claim with the standalone sat version on sale in Power City by Ciaran in one of the Saorsat threads. Again I havent seen screenshots to back any of this up. If it were the case however, it would only be an option for those receiving Saorsat and 28.2 on diseqc. For those who want the full suite of Saorview channels and 28.2 this unofficial functionality would have to have carried over to the yet to be seen Walker/Vestel combi box(es) which again is a well guarded secret.

Dont think we will ever see such a receiver that manufacturers can openly brag as having full official Freesat and Saorview capabilities.

channnels · 28-02-2012 9:45am

If the new Triax doesn't have a 7 day EPG and auto retuning for satellite then surely this is really the HD 537 with Saorview certification and some bugs hopefully ironed out? Not exactly earth shattering.

channelsurfer2 · 28-02-2012 10:19am

yeah disappointing... the way people were talking here i thought these new crop of boxes were gonna be a major advance on the ferguson ariva 120 with the 7 day sat epg(although not freesat certified).

looks like it wont happen and the ferguson will still be the best value on the market....

Triax TSC114 - anyone got their hands on one yet?

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