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Old 04-11-11, 10:29 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Default Dbox2 box replacement options?

Guys, I still use my Dbox2 for FTA, the reason for this is because I've got it setup to record straight to a shared folder on a PC and it does this pretty well.

Recently I noticed I'd lost Channel 5 off it, I've not tried to rescan or retune yet, but I guess its possible that the box may eventually become useless even for FTA, so I wondered if anyone knew of a replacement box that can output it's recordings to a network share, IE a UNC path such as
\\servername\share

I've got a Humax Foxsat HD PVR box in the living room which I can copy recordings off on to external USB but this is a bit slow and clumbsy so I'd like to be still able to record to a shared folder, anyone got any suggestions?

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Default Re: Dbox2 box replacement options?

I noticed that you mention you have a humax, so i presume you have a satellite dish.
If you do, then a cheap dreambox dm500s will do the job for you to record on the fly to a shared drive.
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Default Re: Dbox2 box replacement options?

Hi mate, thanks for letting me know about that box, I will look into it, but it's not really what I'm looking for. Having said that, what are the abilities of that box? I'm guessing it's single tuner and standard definition? Would be hard to justify swapping the Humax for that, as it's dual tuner and HD.

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I noticed that you mention you have a humax, so i presume you have a satellite dish.
If you do, then a cheap dreambox dm500s will do the job for you to record on the fly to a shared drive.
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