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The company Fte maximal reinvents its installations.

Digital receivers microsite

Product News MINI T, OS 180 G, MAX T21 L, LNC 54 US, EVO 45+, MF 4U

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Events Open Day in Switzerland

01 May 2010

Fte maximal reinvents its installations in Barcelona

The company

 Hall and waiting area

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fter the ending of the works in Fte maximal’s headquarters in Barberà del Vallès (Barcelona), we can enjoy our renewed and functional offices, in concordance to the image of the trademark.

The main objectives, the reason why these works were set out some months ago, have been totally fulfilled exceeding highly the initial expectations.

rational way, according to the different areas, with the aim of minimizing the timing on decision-making and empowering, even more, the team-work.

With these works, Fte maximal advances in its continuous improvement plan for offering a better assistance to its

These objectives were the creation of a more efficient, rational and convenient work environment as well as the enhancing of Fte maximal’s trademark inside the installations in order to turn the spaces more identifiable, visual and functional for the visits.

The intention is that the visitor gets a forceful visual impact from the very first moment that makes him understand the essence of the trademark as well as the memory and the strength of the company.

In inner terms, with this change of the installations, we have achieved a new order for all the departments in a more

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 Meeting rooms

clients and promoting fluent business relationships.

All these steps of the company head to the objective of fulfilling the total quality model, as strategy philosophy, which points to our clients, the current and the potential ones.

Welcoming area

Training room

The reception area offers a perfect first image of where the visitor is. He/she gets surrounded

by Fte maximal trademark almost accidentally.

The new training room allows making courses and seminars given

by Fte maximal in its headquarters.

Hall and waiting area In the hall, the visitors who are waiting to be attended can check the latest innovations of Fte maximal in digital receivers and enjoy the excellent image quality they offer.

Meeting rooms Fte maximal’s growth, in terms of staff as well as in commercial relations established, requires an increase and an improvement of the meeting rooms.

 View of hall

The room, which has a capacity for 25 people, has excellent devices in order to make the visitor feel as comfortable as possible during the training. The tables in the room have independent access to internet, TV signal and power, which gives the visitor the possibility of work and test the devices individually.

This room is connected to the new showroom, which will be introduced shortly. We will inform you about it soon through this newsletter.

Now that the works are finished, we have five wide and functional meeting rooms that give the company the possibility of having several visits at the same time.

Fte maximal launches its digital receiver’s microsite With the aim of boosting and improving the contents of its website, Fte maximal has launched a specific site that brings together the digital receivers of the trademark. This way, from

verse of Fte maximal receivers, organized according to the type of reception they offer: terrestrial, satellite, combo, cable or IP From this new micro site, you will be

the website www.ftemaximal.com you can have access to the whole uni-

able to see the images of the different reception devices and you will also

have the possibility of downloading the user’s and installation guide, as well as the latest firmware versions, for the updating of the receivers.

The easy and intuitive use of this new tool turns the micro site http://receivers.ftemaximal.com into the indispensable place you need in order to keep yourself updated over all the news and launches, as well as into an excellent database of Fte maximal digital receiver.

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Product News

mediaMAX MINI T

Spectrum Measurement

Synchronism

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Picture Spectrum

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Measurement

penalty, paying only the difference of price of the product they want to upgrade to.

Fte maximal announces important news in its MINI range that will be introduced in the next issue of Fte News.

Auto-Scan Channel Band & Channel

Band

Basic Datalogger

Full

PRO200 PRO201

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Picture Terrest. - Analogue

big brothers in terrestrial frequencies and modulations.

As for the rest of the range, the customers who later want to upgrade this Field Strength Meters to an upper version will be able to do it without any

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A new version of the popular family of Field Strength Meters mediaMAX MINI is available since last March. It is a specific version for DVB-T and Analogue terrestrial TV, provided with all the measures and specifications of its

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MAX T21 L Fte maximal has successfully launched its new reference MAX T21 L. This DVB-T receiver for SCART connector is an evolution of its predecessor, MAX T21.

The company set the challenge of making an even more compact and lighter design, since it is an adaptor that gets connected directly to the SCART connector of the TV, the reduction of its size offers great advantages for the end user.

Besides of achieving the smallest product of the market, this new mini-receiver is provided with a RF loops that makes the signal distribution to other devices easier. Unlike the desktop receivers, it does not need an additional lead.

LNC 54 US This new LNC twin with 2 universal outputs means a great advance and highlights the leadership of SMT group in the Low Noise Converter field.

With an ultra-compact size, it stands out for its excellent noise phase and its very low noise factor. Its L or “gun” format allows its use in multifocus installation with 2 or more LNC, even for satellites placed at 4.3º

OS 180 G The new Offset Dish OS 180 G is already available. With a 1,95m x 1,80m size, it is produced in a unique piece of galvanized steel.

It is provided with a back disk support that gives a great robustness to the set, which, together with its high performance, turns it into the ideal product for the reception of satellites with weak coverage or even in windy areas.

It has the innovative PULL DOWN RAIN COVER system, the protection of the connection that Fte maximal has been giving to all its LNC for 7 years.

The launch of this reference means the definitive extinction of the LNC 54 US EVO model, from which Fte maximal sold more than 350.000 units of it.

All the parts of the dish have an anticorrosion treatment and the screws are Dacromet.

It is provided in a unique packaging that includes all the assembling accessories.

An 89 mm new support, reference P 89 S, is needed for its assembling on floor.

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Product News EVO 45+ Helping the installer. Reducing the installation time.

Optimizing work. This is what Fte maximal expects with the new antenna EVO 45+. An innovative connection system for the reflectors has allowed us providing an antenna with a unique presentation of packaging that hardly penalizes the volume.

This new antenna will be available by the middle of May. The current reference EVO 45 will be kept in the catalogue.

Astra 28,2º

Reflectors assembling

Security locking system

Astra 19,2º

Hotbird 6/8/9

Thor 3/5/6

MF 4U This new multifocus support allows installing up to 4 LNC in only one dish.

As the rest of the MF family, it stands out for being really universal since its design allows keeping it griped to any LNC, regardless the type of dish or support of it and its diameter.

The size of the dish will set the maximum reception angle according to the enclosed table.

Quick fixing system of the reflectors

Reference

Diameter

º Focus 1 º Focus 2 º Focus 3 º Focus 4

OR 58 SB

58 mm

28,2º E

19,2º E

13º E

5º

OR 80 SB

80 mm

28,2º E

19,2º E

13º E

0,8º E

OS 100 STB 100 mm

28,2º E

19,2º E

13º E

7º

E

OS 130 G

130 mm

23,5º E

19,2º E

13º E

7º

E

OS 150 G

150 mm

19,2º E

13º

E

9º E

4,8º E

Products that are going to disappear Due to the arrival of the Analogue Switch Over in many countries, and the changes it means in the new radioelectric spectrum, Fte maximal announces the cancellation of the range of products of several wide band amplifiers with three UHF inputs.

This decision affects the following families of products:

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Masthead amplifiers: The references KMC 300 and KMC 304 will be removed. In these cases, the alternatives are the AMC 210 and AMC 214 amplifiers.

Multi-Band amplifiers: The references CC 300 and CC 304 are removed, being reference ZM 350 the ideal solution.

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Power Supplies for CC amplifiers: Only the reference PS 15 900, ideal for mixed terrestrial/FI solutions will be kept, the reference PS 15 500 will be removed.

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n February 25th 2010 the law 107/2009 from the European Commission came into effect, implementing the 2005/32/EC European law, concerning the ecologic design and energetic requests of digital receivers. This law obligates the designers and manufacturers to reduce the energetic consumption of the receivers while they are on, and especially when they are on standby mode, and it also introduces new functions with the aim of increasing the efficiency of the electric consumption. From that date on, all the basic digital receivers (known as FTA) without display must have their consumption lower than 1 W on standby or 2 W in case that the device has display. This low consumption in standby mode is known in the practical level as LPC (Low Power Consumption) and it reduces noticeably the electric invoice at home. Now we are going to see the consumption graphic that came into effect on February 25th.

(Table 1) Besides, the law incorporates new functions to be applied on digital receivers, always with the aim of reducing the consumption, as the “AUTO POWER OFF” which, after 3 hours in the same channel, and if no parameters

have been changed, the receiver must go immediately to standby position.

Previously, the receiver must show an indication to the user according to the next example.

Confirmation window about the PowerOff of the MAX T115

This function must be set as active by default in the receivers. This means that it could be temporally cancelled, but it must be always active by default.

This law also fixes a schedule for reducing the consumptions in standby mode in another 50%. The new law will come into effects on February 25th 2012

allowed for receivers with extrafunctions as shown in the Table 2.

All the products that were in the market before the date when this law came into effects can be legally sold, but the productions or imports of products that have no concordance with the specification after February 25th 2010 can not continue under any circumstances.

Fte maximal has had an especial sensitivity for this law, which affects the use of our energy resources. For this reason, since the first day it came into effects, we started selling a wide range of “LPC compatible” receivers, avoiding keeping on stock the non compatible products. All the receivers/ adaptors for DVB-T (MAX T 21L, MAX T 90, MAX T 115 and MAX T 115+) obey the law. Concerning the satellite receivers, from the date it came into effects, the references U4127 and MAX S 500 HD are also under the law. Moreover the launching of reference MAX S 93 has been already announced for the next 17/05. This receiver will replace the popular MAX S 92+ and MAX S 92+ HDMI, which sales were stopped last March.

It is also set for the same date a reduction of the maximum consumtion

Table 2

Table 1 Maximum consumption (in W)

Standby Mode

Active mode

Maximum consumption (in W)

Standby Mode Active mode

Simple receiver

1.0

5.0

Simple receiver

0.5

With display in standby

+ 1.0

–

With display in standby

+ 0.5

–

+ 3.0

With hard disk

–

+ 6.0

With second tuner

–

+ 1.0

With possibility of HD decodification –

+ 1.0

With possibility of HD decodification –

5.0

To see the official document published by the European Union, please visit: http://www.ftemaximal.com/news/EC_107-2009_EN.pdf

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info: www.ftemaximal.com

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Events --

Open Day in Switzerland Last 12th and 15th March, Tom Elektronik, GmbH (the FTE Maximal distributor for Switzerland and Liechtenstein) opened its doors with a special event to its customers because of its 15th birthday. By that way, they could explain personally the new products available, specially oriented to the professional market. The event welcomed more than 120 people and product demonstrations were done: table demonstrations per family of products, quiz contests, gifts and catering.

The feedback given is interesting for FTE Maximal in order to introduce improvements in the products.

Installers could check how functional and easy is installing and measuring satellite signals with mediaMAX MINI family

Some of the families that received more interest were: - MediaMAX MINI Field Meter family (S, S2, ST - and S2T models) - IP HeadEnd for satellite and terrestrial to IP (IPS - 310 / IPT 310 –CI-) - Multiswitches family of stand alone, unicable (Satcr) - and cascadeable devices. SEM, OLS, UCS and DK - MAX S600 HD CI, a functional high-end DVB-S2 - HD PVR with double Common Interface.

Furthermore, the attendance appreciated so much the value given when they realized that a whole program of installation materials completed the range of products.

Terrestrial reception is also important for complementing installations

The event was open, so the visitors could test the equipment from their own hand. The comments were positive and we could realize that Fte maximal together with TOM Elektronik, is giving solutions (also training) to the customer needs, the most important!

We expect it is becoming a periodical referent event with great number of people and renown!

Multiswitches, Field Meters and headends all together in the scenario