Technical specifications

Here are some technical specifications for the NorthQ 7000/7100 DVD player/HD recorder. These are taken from the web and the manual, and some entries seems to be a bit odd. When I have found obvious errors, I have corrected them, and when I have found something that I don't understand, I have just left it as it is and inserted a couple of question-marks. Here we go:

Key info:

bullet DVD Player with hard-drive recorder
bullet DVD - Hard-disk recording
bullet 10 Media formats (DVD, Audio, CD-R, CD-RW, VCD2, VCD3, SVCD, CVD, MP3 & Kodak picture CD
bullet NorthQ 7000: 40Gb Separate hard-drive, Drive-bay
NorthQ 7100:Removeable harddisk tray (No hard-disk installed)
bullet Timeshift mode for TV-Tuner
bullet TV Tuner (1 - 57 Channels) 49.75MHz - 863.25 MHz
bullet 4 quality modes recording (XP - SP - LP & EP)

Specifications:

Video:

bullet MPEG 2
bullet 10-bit video D/A converter
bullet Horizontal Resolution (lines) (???)
bullet P-DVD  Horizontal Resolution (lines) (???)
bullet PAL/NTSC/AUTO optional

Audio:

bullet Dolby AC-3 decoder
bullet DTS Digital Output
bullet Dolby Digital Output
bullet 96KHZ/24Bit audio D/A converter

Input/output:

bullet Optical Digital Output
bullet 5.1 channel audio Output
bullet Audio, Video Aux input 2 sets (SCART input)
bullet S-Video Aux input 1 set
bullet CVBS Output
bullet S-Video Output
bullet Component (Y/Cb/Cr) Video Output
bullet Progressive (Y/Pb/Pr) Video Output
bullet SCART output

Operations:

bullet Optical Digit (???)
bullet 4:3/16:9 aspect ratio switch
bullet English  OSD menu
bullet Viewing angle select
bullet PAL/NTSC select
bullet Languages
bullet Subtitle
bullet FWD/REW
bullet Step
bullet Slow motion
bullet Zoom
bullet Program
bullet Mute
bullet Repeat ( Rep. all, Rep. 1)
bullet Skip
bullet Track/time search

Formats supported:

bullet DVD
bullet Audio CD
bullet CD-R
bullet CD-RW
bullet VCD2.0
bullet VCD3.0
bullet SVCD
bullet CVD
bullet MP3
bullet Kodak Picture CD

Recording Part (Harddisk Drive):

bullet Hard disk capacity:
    NorthQ 7000: 40Gb (upgradeable)
    NorthQ 7100: No disk installed
bullet Recording picture quality of 4 grades
bullet Time-shift recording
bullet Record from outside sources
bullet Record from TV
bullet Time recording
bullet Record from DVD part to Hard disk
bullet Time-shift recording (max 60 minutes)
bullet Three modes of recording sources selectable (PAL, NTSC, SECAM)

 

General specifications:

Item

Standard requirement

Voltage AC 90-260V~, 50Hz/60Hz
Power consumption 40W
Power consumption standby Less than 2W
Dimensions 430(W) x 360(D) x 70(H) mm
Weight 5 kg
Working temperature 5-40˚C
Working humidity 15-75%

DVD Specifications:

Item

Standard requirement

Compatibility DVD, SVCD, CVD, VCD1.0/1.1/2.0, CDDA, MP3, Kodak picture CD, CD-R, CD-RW
Video output 1.0Vp-p 75Ω
Audio output 1.0-2.0V 10KΩ
S/N ratio > 90 dB
Frequency response 20Hz-20KHz 1dB
Channel separation > 80 dB
Dynamic range > 80 dB

Harddisk Specification:

Item

Standard requirement

Disk capacity Free, max 120GB
Recording quality 4 grades of recording quality:
bullet XP quality: 10h45m on 40GB disk (NTSC 720x480, PAL 720x576)
bullet SP quality: 14h on 40GB disk (NTSC 720x480, PAL 720x576)
bullet LP quality: 21h on 40GB disk (NTSC 544x480, PAL 544x576)
bullet EP quality: 40h on 40GB disk (NTSC 352x480, PAL 352x576)
Video output 1.0 0.2 V 75 (???)
Audio output 1dB 10KΩ
S/N ratio > 90 dB
Frequency response 20Hz-20KHz 2dB
Channel separation > 80 dB
Dynamic range > 80 dB

AV1, AV2 specification:

Item

Standard requirement

Video output 1.0 0.2V 75  (???)
Audio output 1dB 10KΩ

S-video in specification:

Item

Standard requirement

Y signal level 0.7 0.14Vp-p 75  (???)
C signal level 0.8 0.176Vp-p 75 (???)
Color 100% color burst 1.0Vp-p

TV output specification:

Item

Standard requirement

Video output 1.0 0.2V 75 (???)
Audio output 1dB 10KΩ
Frequency range VLF: 49.75 - 170.00 MHz
VHF: 170.00 - 450.00 MHz
UHF: 450.00 - 863.25 MHz

 

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