Is the V7 actually worth it for the content it can/might receive ?
I recall the menus being a complete sod, and educating the person that bought it was at least twice the sod quotient.
W.r.t. the "worth it" bit, I suppose it depends on what you want to use it for - IMHO, the major advantages it had when I bought mine was that it had a decent tuner (proven) and was a cheap "experiment", but the latter can't be said today when you can buy something like an Octagon SX88+ (there are clones under other brand names!) for around the same price as a V7, and that has good and regular backup/updating from Octagon.
BTW: the only thing I don't like about the SX88+ is the difficulty of stopping a recording without actually turning OFF the 12V power to it, and the menus are sometimes also quite "complicated".
OTOH, if one wants to explore the "dark side" of s/w cams and "gift cards", then that might be another matter - about which I know very little (and we certainly cannot discuss those things here, as we are often thus reminded
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On the latter point, I agree with you - it is not as user friendly as the Openbox V9S which I bought for the same reason as the Free Sat, although I found the tuner to be slightly less sensitive. That said, I don't use the Openbox very much either, but would be far happier to use that than the Free Sat.
