TELSTRA T-BOX

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TELSTRA T-BOX
T-BOX FEATURES
TV – The T-Box has dual terrestrial FTA tuner that allows you Pause, Rewind and Record upto
three live free-to-air TV channels. It also offers you free BigPond exclusive TV channels like
BigPond Music. You can do individual once off recordings or series recordings of programs.
Electronic Programme guide - When connected to the internet the T-Box will have available a 24
hr by 7 days Program guide of what programs are available via FTA and Foxtel if subscribed.
BigPond Movies – The T-Box allows you to purchase download and watch movies. It enables you
to not have to leave your house to go down the street to rent your latest DVD to watch.
Sports – You can get exclusive free Sport TV channel’s like Horse racing TVN, AFL, Sports news.
Also the AFL Game analyser allows you to see a games highlights like goals, marks and defining
moments from AFL games.
Foxtel on T-Box - Foxtel on T-Box brings you a selection of 30 great Foxtel channels delivered
over the internet. Packages include movies, sports, general entertainment and kid’s channels.
Advantages are that you are on no fixed term contract and that it’s delivered over IP so you don’t
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need be in a Foxtel cable area.
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My Media allows you to play music, watch videos and view photos on a TV
connected to your T-Box
Accessing your media files can be done in two ways:
1. USB device – Copy your media files to a compatible USB device, and then
plug it into either the front or back USB port on your T-Box.
2. Home network sharing – For more advanced users, your T-Box is also
able to access media stored on computers connected to your home
network. ( My Media and connecting to Windows 7 computer )
Through My Media you can setup advance settings like.
• Slideshow photo display duration.
•Picture display format.
•Video display format.
•Subtitles Encoding.
•Looping slideshow.
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What type of USB device can you use ?
You can use external portable HDD that are in a NTFS, FAT16 or FAT32 formats. You can format
your HDD from going into Settings > T-Box information > USB devices > Format USB device
(FAT32).
The T-Box use’s The Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA) to discover and share digital media
between multimedia devices. Currently the T-Box has the functionality only of a Player to find content
on digital media servers (DMS) and provide playback and rendering capabilities
T-Box file formats supported.
Audio - MP3, MPEG1, MPEG-4.10, WMA9 2.0, PCM, ALAC, FLAC
Picture – JPEG, GIF, TIFF, PNG, BMP
Video – MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4.10 (H264), MPEG-4.2, DIVX-4, 5, 6, XVID, WMV9
Container formats - .mov, .mpg, .ts, .mkv, .avi, .asf, .au, .wav
More information around My Media http://www.telstra.com.au/tv/tbox/mymedia/
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Foxtel on T-Box
Foxtel on T-Box is delivered using internet IP streaming technology.
With T-Box Foxtel you have four different content packages that you get starting with the Get
Started package at $19.50 a month. This includes live Linear channels and Foxtel on demand
VOD.
Currently customers will not be able to record, pause, rewind Foxtel on T-Box channels but
currently these features are being investigated by our team.
Eligible T-Box customers with BigPond Cable, Velocity or ADSL2+ or NBN on a fibre connection
can choose from a selection of Foxtel packages. Foxtel on T-Box Service is available in selected
areas.
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How does Telstra deliver internet IP channels to the T-Box
Telstra uses Adaptive bitrate streaming to deliver IP channels to the T-Box that is based on HTTP
(Hypertext Transfer Protocol that is a application protocol for distributed, collaborative,
hypermedia information systems).
In the past we used video streaming technologies utilized streaming protocol RTSP (Real Time
Streaming Protocol). Which has dedicated streaming rates like 2 Mb that means that to receive a
content stream it has to load and buffer enough of the content at a stream rate of 2M.
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How does Adaptive bitrate streaming work ?
Adaptive bitrate streaming works by detecting a user's bandwidth (Network congestion) and TBox capacity in real time and adjusting the quality of a video stream accordingly. It requires the
use of an encoder which can encode a single source video at multiple bit rates (Eg 750k, 1.1M &
2M bs). The T-Box player switches between different stream rates depending on available
resources.
Why we use Adaptive bitrate streaming is.
1. Very little buffering of streams.
2. Fast start time
3. Good experience for both high-end and low-end broadband connections.
On the T-Box we use Microsoft Smooth Streaming implementation that is a IIS Media service
extension that enables adaptive streaming .
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SPECIFICATIONS
Remote
Wi-Fi
RF remote
IEEE 802.11 Wi-Fi b/g/n bi band 2.4 / 5GHz module.
It also supports "pairing" of Wi-Fi devices (WPS Pairing).
The internal Wi-Fi module.
Dual DVB-T Tuner
Equipped with a dual tuner able to receive Free To Air DVB-T channels.
DVB-T validated profiles are as follow:
/* VHF band */
Fc = 177500 + K * 7MHz, with K = 0 .. 7
/* UHF band */
Fc = 522500 + K * 7MHz, with K = 0 .. 42
Chipset
RAM memory
Sigma Designs SMP8655
CPU frequency: 500Mhz
CPU performance: 500 MIPS
256 MB DDR-2 DRAM
Flash memory
128 MB Flash NAND
Local Storage
2”5 embedded HDD 500GB capacity
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SPECIFICATIONS .
Usage temperature
Between 0 degrees and +45 degrees
Power consumption
AS/NZS 6087.2.1:2008
<10 watts in Active Mode and Stand By Mode
<1 watt in Deep Sleep
Hardware connectors
External power plug 12 DC-IN
Ethernet 10/100 base t RJ45
HDMI v1.3
Aerial RF antenna input
RF antenna output
Audio 2 RCA output
Optical audio output
Min-Din A:V output
USB 2.0 (x 2 - front and rear)
Dual colour LED (front)
External power supply and cable 220-240VAC
Ethernet cable
RF adaptor
RF cable
Mini Din to 6 RCA cable
HDMI cable
IR Remote Control
2x AAA batteries
Quick Start Guide
Standard accessories
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OTHER USEFUL INFORMATION AVAILABLE
TO GET THE MOST OF YOUR T-BOX.
- Recording Pre and Post recording time – You can under Settings > Recording
Settings add a buffer to the time your records start of finish to ensure you miss
nothing.
- The quality of your FTA channel reception – Due to Australia switch over from
Analog to Digital reception by the end of 2013 may current antenna may not
receive signals. For Mt Waverly this is 10th December 2013 and indicates
Older antennas may not be suitable to receive the new digital ABC services.
This information be found from the government web site
http://www.digitalready.gov.au/ that has a lot of useful information. On the TBox under Settings > Channel tuning your can tune your TV channels and find
out reception information about the channels. The useful information is that
your channels should have a SNR above 20 dB and a low BER (Bit Error rate)
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HOW TO ACTIVATE YOUR T-BOX & HELP
- To enjoy the full features of your T-Box, you need to register the T-Box online
with a active BigPond Movies account and an eligible BigPond Broadband
service and be connected to the modem via an Ethernet or WiFi connection.
Telstra recommends an Ethernet connection for best experience. Where the
use of an Ethernet connection is not possible we recommend the use of a
Home Network Extender (Powerline or Ruckus).
- To be able to connect a T-Box and sign-up for T-Box Foxtel we do Service
Qualification check premises broadband connection must meet minimum
requirements.
- Way to talk to Telstra about a T-Box is 24x7 Chat that allows you to chat to a
consultant online 24x7. Or call using your phone to 1800 004 461.
- Having issues with your Telstra services have a look at Telstra’s Crowd support
that allows you talk to other Telstra customers and Telstra employees about
questions you have. http://crowdsupport.telstra.com.au/
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DEMONSTRATION:
- Demonstrate T-Box features.
• My Recordings.
- Series records.
- Scheduled Recordings.
- Recordings on USB drive.
• BigPond Video’s
• T-Box Help (911)
• BigPond Movies.
• Applications.
- YouTube
- AFL Game Analyser.
• Program Guide
• Settings.
- T-Box Information
- Internet Connection
- Demonstrate how you can create a Slide show and add some music.
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