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2 Dreamboxes..........
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--- DM 8000 HD PVR & DM 800 HD ---
Motek SG2100 & Triax 80cm Dual LNB
------ Fixed Dish 28e Quad LNB -------
---- Sly HD Full & 24" Apple iMAC ----
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Hi guys, here's another review / tutorial from me , this time for the tremendous DM8000.
The first thing you notice is the packaging, its looks like Dream have been taking lessons from Apple, as soon as you undo the shipping packaging to reveal the actual box, you know straight away you've bought something special. It's nice to see Dream have at least made an effort to make you feel your £900 has been well spent.
So, whats in the box ?
1. A huge DM8000.
2. Remote & Batteries.
3. VIP membership card.
4. Recovery USB memory stick.
5. DVD driver power / sata adapter.
6. Power / sata cable.
7. Manual.
8. Mounting screws for DVD & HDD.
9. DVI to HDMI cable (Looks better quality than the DM800 one).
Having unpacked it all, the actual dreambox is very impressive, its pretty sturdy apart from the front folding flap. The hinges come out quite easily, but they also clip back in just as easy. The screws for the top cover are hidden down the sides by sliding plastic covers. You whip the covers off to reveal 2 screws each side and one on the rear.
In my case I had some hardware to install, so first job was to get inside.
I'm installing the following.
1. Sony AD-7670S DVDrw drive. (Thanks To Llew for the model no.)
2. 1Tb Western Digital Caviar Green (Thanks To DeepDiver for the Recommendation)
3. A DVB-S tuner
4. A DVB-C tuner
Picture below shows everything installed.
1. Top left corner is the built in twin DVB-S2 tuner.
2. To the right of that is an old DVB-S tuner I had.
3. To the right of that is a DVB-C I had.
4. Obviously DVD and Hard disk installed too.
You'll notice there's not much room between the DVB-s tuner and the DVD drive, but it does go in quite easily.
The tuners simply plug in, and the hard disk is mounted with the supplied rubbers and screws.
The DVD drive is a little more work. Firstly you need to remove the mounting plate and screw the drive to it. Next you need to attached the supplied power / sata adapter to the back of the drive.
So, its all pretty straight forward, if you get everything out the box and take your time.
With all my hardware in place I'm ready to power up. I went straight in and used the web interface flashing method. I didn't even bother to boot the standard image.
Now, I'm using a SanDisk 2Gb Extreme III SD card and so I'll install Nabilo Pureflash into flash which included barry allen. Then I'll install blackhole 0.9 to the SD card. Here I found my first pitfall. I have a sly sub which at the moment is NDS2 and I want to use the internal reader for this card. It's common knowledge the DM800 needs the march 10th driver update to read NDS cards internally, and so it's pretty sure the DM8000 will need it too. I was right, it does. After installing BH09 to SD, it would not read my NDS card. So, I simply applied the update , but still no joy.
I soon realised that during the installation of barry allen the drivers present in the flash are passed to the barry allen install. Since the flash didn't contain this driver, then neither did my BA install. So, I removed barry allen, rebooted to flash , applied the driver update and reinstalled BA. Then I reinstalled BH09 to SD and bingo, NDS working in the internal reader.
Other than that the setup has been a breeze, even with that issue, it took about 2 hours to get everything sorted and running sweet.
I'm now running CCcam 2.1.0 using internal reader, scanned all sats from 1w to 28e and that 'other' tuner is working great too.
I'll be happy to add and respond to others in this thread and certainly help people get the most from their DM8000.
The first thing you notice is the packaging, its looks like Dream have been taking lessons from Apple, as soon as you undo the shipping packaging to reveal the actual box, you know straight away you've bought something special. It's nice to see Dream have at least made an effort to make you feel your £900 has been well spent.
So, whats in the box ?
1. A huge DM8000.
2. Remote & Batteries.
3. VIP membership card.
4. Recovery USB memory stick.
5. DVD driver power / sata adapter.
6. Power / sata cable.
7. Manual.
8. Mounting screws for DVD & HDD.
9. DVI to HDMI cable (Looks better quality than the DM800 one).
Having unpacked it all, the actual dreambox is very impressive, its pretty sturdy apart from the front folding flap. The hinges come out quite easily, but they also clip back in just as easy. The screws for the top cover are hidden down the sides by sliding plastic covers. You whip the covers off to reveal 2 screws each side and one on the rear.
In my case I had some hardware to install, so first job was to get inside.
I'm installing the following.
1. Sony AD-7670S DVDrw drive. (Thanks To Llew for the model no.)
2. 1Tb Western Digital Caviar Green (Thanks To DeepDiver for the Recommendation)
3. A DVB-S tuner
4. A DVB-C tuner
Picture below shows everything installed.
1. Top left corner is the built in twin DVB-S2 tuner.
2. To the right of that is an old DVB-S tuner I had.
3. To the right of that is a DVB-C I had.
4. Obviously DVD and Hard disk installed too.
You'll notice there's not much room between the DVB-s tuner and the DVD drive, but it does go in quite easily.
The tuners simply plug in, and the hard disk is mounted with the supplied rubbers and screws.
The DVD drive is a little more work. Firstly you need to remove the mounting plate and screw the drive to it. Next you need to attached the supplied power / sata adapter to the back of the drive.
So, its all pretty straight forward, if you get everything out the box and take your time.
With all my hardware in place I'm ready to power up. I went straight in and used the web interface flashing method. I didn't even bother to boot the standard image.
Now, I'm using a SanDisk 2Gb Extreme III SD card and so I'll install Nabilo Pureflash into flash which included barry allen. Then I'll install blackhole 0.9 to the SD card. Here I found my first pitfall. I have a sly sub which at the moment is NDS2 and I want to use the internal reader for this card. It's common knowledge the DM800 needs the march 10th driver update to read NDS cards internally, and so it's pretty sure the DM8000 will need it too. I was right, it does. After installing BH09 to SD, it would not read my NDS card. So, I simply applied the update , but still no joy.
I soon realised that during the installation of barry allen the drivers present in the flash are passed to the barry allen install. Since the flash didn't contain this driver, then neither did my BA install. So, I removed barry allen, rebooted to flash , applied the driver update and reinstalled BA. Then I reinstalled BH09 to SD and bingo, NDS working in the internal reader.
Other than that the setup has been a breeze, even with that issue, it took about 2 hours to get everything sorted and running sweet.
I'm now running CCcam 2.1.0 using internal reader, scanned all sats from 1w to 28e and that 'other' tuner is working great too.
I'll be happy to add and respond to others in this thread and certainly help people get the most from their DM8000.