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High quality FTA in a small mini FTA box with USB 2.0 support. Continuing a tradition of top quality FTA for affordable price, Conaxsat brings you the best in low cost FTA with the Conaxsat USB Mini. With quality rivaling top mainstream brands like RCA or Sony. This little box packs a powerful punch with its 32-bit ARM946 RISC Processor. Why settle for sub-par brands when you can have top picture quality and fast channel changing for this price

Features:

* Upgrade Software & Update Channel Database through USB Port and RS232
* MPEG-II Digital & Fully DVB Compliant.
* C/KU band control for each antenna
* Total 5,000 Channels Programmable
* Electronic Program Guide (EPG) for On Screen Channel Information
* Picture In Graphic (PIG)
* Zoom Function by 2x..4x
* 7-Segment(4-digit) Type of Front Panel Display
* MP3/JPEG File Play via USB Port
* Main Processor 32-bit ARM946 RISC Processor
* Flash Memory 4 Mbytes
* System Memory 32 Mbytes
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HOT!!!!! User rated 4/5
Reviewed by kevin on 6-2-2008 (TX)
Great reciever awesome support, very reliable and reasonable price, very good picture, wish someone recommended it to me like i would to anyone of my friends and someone starting out in fta very easy reciever to setup.... enjoy
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Real Bad Remote Control User rated 3/5
Reviewed by Roch on 26-2-2008 (Canada)
The picture is good. The support is good. But the Remote Control is real bad. The important keys (Previous, TV/Radio) that you use all the time are far away to the top or bottom. The least used ones are at the 4-way navigation. How often do you use the Audio key (used to change the language), Speakers (used for Left/Right and both)? Many other keys do not actually apply to the CNX Mini, they are only used with the Duo and Trio.

BTW, the remote will interfere with Teac CD Players and some other brands. So, which changing the volume, you might end up changing something else on the Teac.
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Great budget receiver User rated 4/5
Reviewed by Itaintrite on 8-10-2008 (NYC)
Let's get the negatives out of the way first:

1) Confusing set up for first-timer. I had to flash factory. Then upgrade bootloader. THEN apply another patch. Definitely not THAT newbie-friendly.
2) Sloooow channels scanning. It took at least 10 minutes to scan 110/119. SLOW! Very slow! Even my CW800 was faster than this box. And especially after using the Neosat iPro 2000. (The menus and everything else is nice and fast though).
3) EPG is far from perfect. I turned on EPG. Pressed the Red button twice to load Dish EPG... Took FIVE minutes to populate... only to find out that I got 4 hours of EPG. Had to do it manually by leaving the box on chan 239.

Ok, now to the good news:

1) Visually, the box looks awesome. I bought the white limited edition (a few dollars more) and it looks stunning! Matches my Xbox360 (which I have under the box) perfectly. Beautiful! The menus/EPG are nice too.
2) After my CW800 remote, the CNX Mini's RCU was a HUGE step up. Buttons responsive, nice size and good sensor.
3) Great video quality :) Definitely sharper than the CW800 (not by much since it's still SD).
4) It has PVR! Not advanced PVR but you can set up timer and record channels. Great bonus.

I got mine on ebay for $135 shipped. Got it in 2 days. CW800 used to be the best value receiver for me. Not anymore :)
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