Traxis1500: This latest receiver in the Traxis line comes to the USA With this unit finally make the plunge into to conform to a smaller footprint. Lets face it these other boxes have a lot of wasted space even the Traxis 2500. It makes a lot of sense to make a smaller footprint for the electronics to fit into, except when you are making use if a PVR setup. Also any CI or common interface does not take up much room. With a this smaller foot print the Traxis 1500 is half the height and approximately three quarters of an inch smaller around the four sides than the Traxis 2500. Now you can ship double the units for the same price. A new mirrored finish in the display panel is kind of cool & different, when the digits, power, and digital lock lights up, it is like looking through a two way mirror. Different to this unit is its dual video out, which I cannot see much sense to only if there was a duel AV out so you can on set of AV to your TV and the other to a channel modulator.
This unit is basically the same as the DBS2500 and I left all the sample menus the same since there was no noticeable difference.
Jitters: The configuration menu screens have a little jitter and I have no doubt they will have a fix for that very soon, since they had fixed this problem with the Traxis 2500.
The Contents: Receiver, new style remote, RCA cables and batteries
Games: The receiver comes with 3 games, and many manufacturers are including games but please give me a break. Some of these games that the companies include give me flash backs from back in the 1970's. Who would even play these when you have playstation , xbox, and nintendo.
Where it Shine: The PAL to NTSC conversion is excellent, better than any Coship or Fortec. Most receivers have a 6 minute problem, during the first 6 minutes lip sync progressively gets worse and then at the 6 minute mark there is a screen blink for a second, then the problem starts all over again.
