ARMAS Products
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First Tier
Second Tier
Third Tier

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Overview
The Triple-Dragon is a digital home theater system. It contains three tiers by functionality, and two phases by implementing schedule.
The Triple-Dragon is the first one provides digital video and audio life program into your home.

Three Tiers
The first tier ¡V DBS-3000 CNCIE provides basic functions such as digital satellite receiver, CI, CA ( Conax )and ethernet software upgrade etc. You can add HDD up to this receiver as a personal video recorder.
The second tier ¡V DVR-3000 H8D2 provides advanced features, which include PVR, DVD, Browser, E-Mail, DVD¡ÓRW and 6-in-1 CF, interface. This tier requires working with first tier.
The third tier ¡V DAP-3000 A6P22 provides Dolby AC-3 5.1 channel decoder with amplifier.

Two Phases

The first phase scheduled by August 2004 with most features except the ones in second phase list below.
The second phase scheduled by end of 2004 to add Browser, E-mail, 6-in-1 CF reader, games, DVB-MHP and DVD Disc compliant format by DVD writer ,DVD player ,MP3 player ,VCD player. This phase enhances on software only.

First Tier

General Features ¡@ ¡@


Digital Satellite, Cable and Terrestrial Receiver

DBS-3000: Digital Satellite Receiver
DBC-3000: Digital Cable Receiver (Not ready)
DBT-3000: Digital Terrestrial Receiver(Not ready)
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Front-End Control

For Satellite Receiver, Front End Supports Controller for
¡@ LNB Switches: 0V/12V, 14V/18V, 0/22KHz, DiSEqC1.0, 1.1, 1.2, 2.0
¡@ Dish Motor: DiSEqC1.2


Digital Stream Format
MPEG-2 Compliant, and backward compatible with MPEG-1
¡@ System: Support various system formats, includes
¡@ Transport Stream (TS)
Program Stream (PS)
Packetized Elementary Stream (PES)
Elementary Stream (ES)
¡@ Digital Video: Support Main Profile / Main Level (MP@ML) with
¡@ 720 x 576 x 25 (Width x Height x FramesPerSecond) for PAL system, and
720 x 480 x 29.97 (Width x Height x FramesPerSecond) for NTSC system
¡@ Digital Audio: Support the followings
¡@ MPEG-1, MPEG-2 Layer I, II, III (MP3)
AC-3 reformatted

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Conditional Access

Support one slot Common Interface (DVB-CI, EN50221) and working smoothly with the following existed systems and CAMs
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Conax
Cryptoworks
Irdeto I && II
Nagravision
SECA I & II
Viaccess I & II
Support two slots embedded Conditional Access (CA) for
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Audio & Video Output

RCA Jack with Composite Video and Stereo Audio
TV SCART and VCR SCART
S-Video
RF Modulator
S/P-DIF optical out for PCM / AC-3 / DTS
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Communication

10/100Mbps full duplex ethernet interface
USB connector for keyboard, mouse, photo camera, etc.


Storage

Up to 16MB flash ROM
Up to 64MB SDRAM
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Front Panel

Graphical LC-Display
IR Receiver
Keypads include Power, Menu, Select, Exit, Up, Down, Left and Right

Hardware Specification ¡@ ¡@

Chipsets
Integrated IBM Pallas series products, includes IBM04500, with
¡@ PowerPC405 processor
IBM04500 252 MHz/350 MIPS
  16K Instruction Cache and 16K Data Cache- Demultiplexer x 3
¡@ DVB Descrambler x 3
¡@ MPEG-2 Video and Audio Decoder
¡@ Display Controller to support 5 planes blending display with Anti-Flicker
¡@ NTSC and PAL video encoder
¡@ 2-D Graphics with BitBLT, free-size vertical and horizontal Scalar and Blending
¡@ External Processor Interface (EPI, 32-bits address and 16-bit Data)
¡@ General Purpose Timers (GPTs)
¡@ Pulse Width Modulators
¡@ IDE Interface (ATA-5)
¡@ USB 1.1 Host Controller
¡@ Two Smart Card controllers
¡@ Two I 2 C Interfaces
¡@ Three UART750 Serial Communication Ports
¡@ General Purpose Input/Output (GPIO)
¡@ Serial Controller Port
¡@ Synchronous Serial Port/Digital Audio Input
¡@ 420-ball EPBGA
SMSC LAN91C113-NC Ethernet Controller
Philips TDA8004 IC Card Interface
PCM1725U Audio DAC
STV6412ADT Audio Video (AV) Switch & Electronic Volume Control
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Storage
80MB SDRAM
4MB Flash ROM, or 16MB (8MB x 2)

I/O Interface

AC 90V ~ 260V power input
Tuner signal input with loop-through
Modulator with multi-system output and external signal input for loop-out
RCA, SCART, S-Video and S/PDIF connectors
RJ45 for ethernet interface
Special-defined external bus interface to connect with second tier¡¦s HDD, DVD¡ÓRW and Compact Flash
One slot PCMCIA interface for CI
Two Slots IC Card Interface for CA ( Conax only)
LC-Display
IR Remote Sensor
Keypads
USB 1.1 Host

Software Specification ¡@ ¡@

Operating System
Debian Linux Open Source which supports Linux Standard API

Basic Receiver Features
User friendly installation with and automatically channel search
Support for DiSEqC 1.0 1.1 1.2 2.0
Unlimited channel lists
Unlimited bouquet and favorite lists
Cool booting within 4.5 seconds
Channel switching in less than one second
DVB EPG support
EPG support for non-DVB channels (MTV, CSAT (France), etc.)
Teletext support
Hardware assisted display of pictures (photocd, photo camera, etc.) on TV
Multi language OSD
Support 16:9 / 4:3 video format
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Descramble
Support CI and provide CA system, smartcard information
Support Embedded Conax
Middleware
DVB-MHP

Software Upgrade

Software upgrade through ethernet

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Second Tier

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Integrated 6 in 1 Compact Flash Card Reader
Support all existed CF Card interface
Supports Electronic Photo Album

Personal Video Recording (PVR)

Built in hard disk, current capacity is 40GB to 120GB
Built in DVD Recorder which supports DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+R, DVD+RW, CD-R and CD-RW
Time shifted recordings
Trick mode replay (fast forward, rewind, slow-motion, instant replay)
Start recordings through: timer, epg, quick start
Recordings are accessible to any PC connected to the same network as receiver
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CD/VCD/SVCD/PhotoCD/DVD/MP3/DVD-RW Features
Playback of CD audio, including CD Text support
Playback of DVD Video & SVCD
DVD-Video conforming (enables playback in any DVD player)
Kodak Picture-CD and Photo-CD support
Playback of MP3 CDs
Copy recordings from hard disk to DVD
Allows creation of backup copies of Video DVDs & CDs (Audio CDs, etc)
The DVD recorder inside the box is shared through the ethernet that every PC can use it as if it was built directly into this PC (allows recording to DVD from the PC)

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Power
This tier has its own power system

Storage
Build-in HDD with IDE interface
Supports all standard hard disks
Build-in DVD-RW
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Integrated 6 in 1 Compact Flash Card Reader
Support all existed CF Card interface

Software Specification ¡@ ¡@

PVR Features
Digital recording time according to HDD capacity (average 1.8GB/Hour)
Recorded streams file management system
Time-Shifting Recording
Trick mode replay (fast forward, rewind, slow-motion, instant replay)

Internet Application
Web browser
E-mail client

DVD-RW
Fully DVD-Compliant Disc maker
Share DVD-RW for external PC through ethernet communication
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CD/VCD/SVCD/PhotoCD/DVD/MP3/DVD-RW Features
Playback of CD audio, including CD Text support
Playback of DVD Video & SVCD
DVD-Video conforming (enables playback in any DVD player)
Kodak Picture-CD and Photo-CD support
Playback of MP3 CDs
Copy recordings from hard disk to DVD
Allows creation of backup copies of Video DVDs & CDs (Audio CDs, etc)
The DVD recorder inside the box is shared through the ethernet that every PC can use it as if it was built directly into this PC (allows recording to DVD from the PC)

Integrated 6 in 1 Compact Flash Card Reader
Support all existed CF Card interface
Supports Electronic Photo Album

Third Tier

General Features ¡@ ¡@

Dolby Digital (AC-3) Decoder with amplifier
Dolby Digital (AC-3) 5.1 Multichannel Decoder
Dolby Digital (AC-3), Dolby Pro Logic, and Stereo Mode
Maximum, Standard, Late Night Dynamic Range Compression Mode
Precision Digital Output Volume and Mute Control
Precision 96KHz/24bit ADC and DAC with Low pass Active Filter
EEPROM Setup Status Memory when AC Power Shut Off
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Hardware Specification
This tier has its own power system

Amplifier Power
80w *2 , 25w * 3

I/O Connectors
One Analog and 2 Digital S/PDIF Input (Coaxial 1, Optical 1)
RCA Jack *6
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