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The Sonicview 4000 is now one of the most popular STB's on the FTA market. On our recent survey by this site, it showed that the Sonicview 4000 is right at the top for most liked STB. The key features of seven day electronic program guide is great. The guide has very useful displays by category and type of shows you want to watch. The USB 2.0 memory stick loading capability is great. This feature allows you to load your latest BIN file on your memory stick,( saving you space on your hard drive), then just plug it into the USB slot, and download the newest file from your memory stick right to your Sonicview 4000. This is great, keeps you from having to unhook your
from your Antenna and dragging it to your PC. The Sonicview also has future plans of a plug in play hard drive for DVR. The features below describe it well..

This Unit is very similar to the viewsat ultra ,this receiver cames with a front slot USB 2.0 to allow for easy updates.sonicview 4000 with a USB slot for easy Firmwear upgrade and future plans to allow an external USB drive which allows you to plug in hard-drives and make it a DVR,the future plans for this receiver makes the sonicview sv-4000 a very exciting receiver.

FEATURES:
USB 2.0 HOST Slot for S/W Downloading
Fully MPEG-2 & DVB-S Supported NEC MPEG Chip-Set Blind Scan Sharp NIM Tuner (Tuner Symble Rate: 1-45MS/s) Channel Naming Supported
USAL Supported
Useful RCU Key-Functions for Channel Find, Edit and Signal Strength Display
Multi-Picture Frame Screen Available
4,9,16 Frame Screen & Thumbnail View Selectable
Zoom In-Out Function for Watching Screen
Wide PLL RLL Modulator - PAL B/G,I,D/K
Diseqc 1.0 & 1.2 with 500mA Max, Lnb Power
22KHz Switching Control
256 Colors & User Friendly GUI for Easy Control
Various GUI Language Support: English, Arabic, Vietnamese, Persian, German, French, Russian, Spanish, Italian
The Fastest Booting & Scan Speed : Single & Multi-Satellite Auto Scan/Manual Scan Supported
High Speedy Chanel Changing Time : Less than 1 Sec.
6000 Channels Memory Capacity for TV & Radio Programs
8 Favorite Channel List Group Programmable
Channel Sorting by FTA, CAS, Satellite, Alphabetic Order & Network
Close Caption Supported
Strip-EPG for 7 Days Programs
PIG (Picture-IN-Graphic) Available
Various Aspect Ratio with 4:3, Letter Box, Full Screen & 16:9
Background Graphic Display for Radio Program Channels
Parental Lock Function using Master PIN Code
40 Steps Volume Control
Automatic NTSC/PAL Detection and Simple Video Converter (NTAC<->PAL)
On-Screen Display Menu
Beep Sound for Easy RCU Control
Useful RCU Key-Functions for Channel Find, Edit and Signal Strength Display
CPU 284 MIPS @ 186 MHz
Memory 32 MB DDRAM, 2MB Flash, 16Kb Eeprom

[tileguy]

I have the 8000hd I also have a 4000 but the hd is the best especially when it comes to recording...