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<blockquote data-quote="jeallen01" data-source="post: 1082045" data-attributes="member: 176704">W.r.t. the &quot;worth it&quot; 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 &quot;experiment&quot;, 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 &quot;complicated&quot;.OTOH, if one wants to explore the &quot;dark side&quot; of s/w cams and &quot;gift cards&quot;, 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 <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big Grin&nbsp; &nbsp; :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" />)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.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="jeallen01, post: 1082045, member: 176704"] 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 :D) 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. [/QUOTE]

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