Apr 2, 2018 - Comag Sl65 Software Update. Which is the latest firmware I can run on this receiver (B1 chip)? I've tried Truman EMU 1.4.25b but the softcam.

Me, on a Bad Hair Day, holding the SL65. Goodness, you'd have thought I'd have brushed my hair first. Oh, wait, I did. ☺ I received this receiver third-hand, with no instructions, so everything here has been 'figured out'. Somebody sent me the instruction booklet PDF last week (March 23rd) which I downloaded.

Since it was a large attachment and my mailbox was maxed out, I decided to delete it (and a few other large messages) and then send a thank you note. Anybody with half a brain (i.e. Not me!) will be wondering exactly how I planned to send a thank you once I'd deleted the email, where would I get the reply to address from? Whoever you are, THANK YOU!

I have printed the user guide in case I need to refer to it, but I didn't do a bad job of figuring out this little receiver. Switching on When you switch the receiver on, the front panel display says ' On', then ' Strt'. After a boot time of about four seconds, we flick to the first channel. The receiver appears to do this rebooting (only a shorter version) when you come out of standby, it appears to power down the reception and video circuitry (in order to save power). Due to the design and operation of the Digibox (i.e. Keeping the EPG up to date), the Digibox really only turns off the picture when you switch it to standby - that's why it always runs hot.

Not that running hot is an issue with the SL65! Startup channel If you don't like the idea of starting on channel 1, you can choose any channel to start on. Choosing which channel to start with. In addition, it appears that if you switch the receiver into standby (not off), it will remember the channel that you were watching, and if you switch it off, then on again the following day (for example), it will restart with the last channel that you were watching.

Therefore it would not be unusual to see my receiver start up on channel 0014 which is Anime Central. I think it is a useful feature. You might be less pleased if you switch on and find your kids were watching Babestation or the Playboy One previews. ☺ It is also a useful feature for people such as my mother who might not really want the complexities of learning to use a satellite receiver. By pressing two power buttons (the receiver and some sort of amplifier), she would be able to switch on to BBC Radio 4 - simply by setting it as the default start-up channel.

Mosaic A really interesting idea is the ability to see a mosaic of what is on. Just press the M/P key and the receiver will tune to each channel in turn and grab a miniature of each screen. The channel highlighted then plays in real-time, with sound.

If you are interested, simply press OK to watch it normally. BBC lunchtime news, in full. The receiver's clock, by the way, was set to +1 (European time) - that explains the disparity in the times.

It confused me too, so I let it work on British time now; same with the VCR. So now let's zoom in on the girl reading the news. This next picture is 6× (the receiver can do 2× to 16× in varying steps). Look how clear the BBC's image is at 6×! Given this degree of quality, it could be possible to assemble, from a static picture, an image with dimensions 3240×1932. There'd be no point though, as that's about twice HDTV so there's nothing that's able to display it.

But it would still look pretty good, if only in our imaginations. The channel info banner, explained. Pressing the info button pops up a display giving technical information on the channel including a signal stregth meter of the channel you are actually watching (the Digibox reports the signal quality for 11778V regardless of what you are watching). Pressing the epg button pops up a display giving a 'now and next' with a channel list. You can expand the information for the current programme. You can also call up the channels list, sorted by satellite or your favourites. As you choose a channel, you will see it in the space on the right, along with some basic techie information.

Channel list, with details. There is a simpler channel list, and - of course - you can just tap in the channel number. Radio channels When you choose a radio channel, it displays a fixed picture as a sort of backdrop, along with the info banner. Forma 5 gr blank. This behaviour is similar to the Digibox, except you see a picture and not blank blue; and the EPG long description isn't shown all the time (it is on the Digibox). On the plus side, I really like this backdrop picture.

It is stylish without being too much. A teletext page.

I found out by accident something which is not described in the user guide. When you press 'text', the teletext appears in a 'solid' black rectangle over the top of the screen.

What if you would prefer it as a merged overlay? The SL65 offers four levels of background - solid black, heavily opaque, just opaque, and transparent. You can cycle through by pressing the audio key. You can see a solid page (on a scrambled channel) and you can see the 'just opaque' overlaid on CNN, below. Setting up the TV system. I find it interesting that the PAL is specified as PAL-B/G.