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<blockquote data-quote="jeallen01" data-source="post: 1005349" data-attributes="member: 176704">Well, the V8S &quot;version&quot; finally arrived today (2 full days late on the RM &quot;48 hr delivery service&quot;, and it's obviously not a lot like the V7S - for a start, it's a lot bigger (230mm x 135mmx 30mm) and here's the illustration from the seller's ad:[ATTACH=full]103719[/ATTACH]Also, even at first reading. the instruction book, in the &quot;Feature SPEC&quot; section, contains misleading statements to the effect that the A/V outputs include &quot;Left/Right analog audio output (RCA) phono&quot; and &quot;Digital audio output (SPDIF with coaxial or fiber)&quot; - but none of these connectors are fitted (not that I would want to use them, even if they had been), and there were no AAA batteries for the remote.Goodness knows what else I will find.Seller's ad states that a fully up-to-date free sat channel list is installed before despatch but the unit was fully shrink-wrapped and so that did not appear to have been done - however, the seller then claimed that this had been done by &quot;their seller&quot; and then the unit was re-shrink-wrapped.Edited:Now installed and running (using the Vu+ 12V PSU as that's already in place!) in the office.Only FTA (of course!) ATM, but appears to give quite a good HD picture; USALS appears to work, and it has successfully swung the dish from 28E to 39E (&amp; blind-scanned) and then 42E (now blind-scanning). Will try to swing it to one of the far West Sat's in a few mins.Most disconcerting things so far is that- having blind-scanned 39E, I took it out of searching mode and it immediately swung the dish back to the last 28E channel viewed - so, having scanned a sat, it would appear that you have to then select a channel on that to stop it going off somewhere else- didn't seem to want to open some 28E channels that I thought would be FTA (or is that a &quot;Freesat&quot; issue?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="jeallen01, post: 1005349, member: 176704"] Well, the V8S "version" finally arrived today (2 full days late on the RM "48 hr delivery service", and it's obviously not a lot like the V7S - for a start, it's a lot bigger (230mm x 135mmx 30mm) and here's the illustration from the seller's ad: [ATTACH=full]103719[/ATTACH] Also, even at first reading. the instruction book, in the "Feature SPEC" section, contains misleading statements to the effect that the A/V outputs include "Left/Right analog audio output (RCA) phono" and "Digital audio output (SPDIF with coaxial or fiber)" - but none of these connectors are fitted (not that I would want to use them, even if they had been), and there were no AAA batteries for the remote. Goodness knows what else I will find. Seller's ad states that a fully up-to-date free sat channel list is installed before despatch but the unit was fully shrink-wrapped and so that did not appear to have been done - however, the seller then claimed that this had been done by "their seller" and then the unit was re-shrink-wrapped. Edited: Now installed and running (using the Vu+ 12V PSU as that's already in place!) in the office. Only FTA (of course!) ATM, but appears to give quite a good HD picture; USALS appears to work, and it has successfully swung the dish from 28E to 39E (& blind-scanned) and then 42E (now blind-scanning). Will try to swing it to one of the far West Sat's in a few mins. Most disconcerting things so far is that - having blind-scanned 39E, I took it out of searching mode and it immediately swung the dish back to the last 28E channel viewed - so, having scanned a sat, it would appear that you have to then select a channel on that to stop it going off somewhere else - didn't seem to want to open some 28E channels that I thought would be FTA (or is that a "Freesat" issue? [/QUOTE]

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