astra19
Member
- Joined
- Apr 11, 2019
- Messages
- 367
- Reaction score
- 198
- Points
- 43
- My Satellite Setup
- 98cm motorised technomate. 50e to 34.5w
- My Location
- Europe
I’m currently using a cheap Edision that I originally bought because it had a DVB-C tuner as well. When I was living in the Netherlands I wanted to have UK and Dutch channels on one receiver, but unfortunately the receiver constantly stuttered on the cable channels and the CI module was painstakingly slow to decrypt the channels. You get what you pay for!
Since I no longer need a DVB-C turner, this box has lost its necessity (and even then it barely worked), I’m wanting to upgrade, but I’m finding it hard to find good/comprehensive reviews of the stuff at the higher end of the market.
I was hoping to get some advice. Maybe people could recommend receivers on the basis of the things I liked and disliked about my current one? I’m guessing some of the features I set out are going to be available at software rather than hardware level? I think that’s why I’m finding it a bit hard to narrow down on the basis of features. One thing I'm not clear on is if I use an image on a receiver that say, mimics Freesat channel numbers and interface, does that stop me from customising it further easily? I do value flexibility over user-friendliness to a certain extent.
Things I like:
Even though it’s a cheap box with no HDD, a USB stick gave a very good recording capability. I don’t record often, but I really appreciate being able to pause and rewind live TV. Even on a cheap box with USB recording, it is good at pausing/rewinding even high quality HD.
The Edision is quite easy to use. The interface is mostly intuitive and it doesn’t take too long to reorder channels. That said, I’d appreciate being able to control things using a computer since at times I felt like I was going to get RSI trying to use the remote to order hundreds of channels!
Things I dislike:
The Edision is quite slow at changing channels. Not enough to be annoying, but if I could zap around faster that would be great. It handled changing Diseqc surprisingly well, it didn’t take much longer at all to change channels between sats than it did channels on the same transponder!
The Edision’s CAM slot didn’t seem to be that great. It’s likely I’ll subscribe to at least one package because we’re a multilingual family, so two CAM or card slots would be appreciated.
EPG is very slow to load on the Edision and only appears when selecting a transponder. I’d like to have a receiver that is able to pull EPG from an external resource if that’s possible.
Being a cheaper box the Edision didn’t really offer extra features. There are some channels I watch that steam (legally) online. If there is a box that easily incorporates streaming channels into a list rather than hiding it behind several menus, that is a major bonus.
I’d appreciate any advice you have. Thanks for reading!
Since I no longer need a DVB-C turner, this box has lost its necessity (and even then it barely worked), I’m wanting to upgrade, but I’m finding it hard to find good/comprehensive reviews of the stuff at the higher end of the market.
I was hoping to get some advice. Maybe people could recommend receivers on the basis of the things I liked and disliked about my current one? I’m guessing some of the features I set out are going to be available at software rather than hardware level? I think that’s why I’m finding it a bit hard to narrow down on the basis of features. One thing I'm not clear on is if I use an image on a receiver that say, mimics Freesat channel numbers and interface, does that stop me from customising it further easily? I do value flexibility over user-friendliness to a certain extent.
Things I like:
Even though it’s a cheap box with no HDD, a USB stick gave a very good recording capability. I don’t record often, but I really appreciate being able to pause and rewind live TV. Even on a cheap box with USB recording, it is good at pausing/rewinding even high quality HD.
The Edision is quite easy to use. The interface is mostly intuitive and it doesn’t take too long to reorder channels. That said, I’d appreciate being able to control things using a computer since at times I felt like I was going to get RSI trying to use the remote to order hundreds of channels!
Things I dislike:
The Edision is quite slow at changing channels. Not enough to be annoying, but if I could zap around faster that would be great. It handled changing Diseqc surprisingly well, it didn’t take much longer at all to change channels between sats than it did channels on the same transponder!
The Edision’s CAM slot didn’t seem to be that great. It’s likely I’ll subscribe to at least one package because we’re a multilingual family, so two CAM or card slots would be appreciated.
EPG is very slow to load on the Edision and only appears when selecting a transponder. I’d like to have a receiver that is able to pull EPG from an external resource if that’s possible.
Being a cheaper box the Edision didn’t really offer extra features. There are some channels I watch that steam (legally) online. If there is a box that easily incorporates streaming channels into a list rather than hiding it behind several menus, that is a major bonus.
I’d appreciate any advice you have. Thanks for reading!
