Eurovox - My appraisal after three weeks

[GJP10]

Afternoon all

After having my Eurovox I have decided to get rid of it for various reasons. It took me seven days to finally install all channels properly - Which involved me having to uprgade my TV package to get VM round - It then worked properly for three days until I came home from work to find that every single channel said "no or bad signal". After numerous power and deep scans I have not been able to install all the channels completely and the channels that did install all had a horrendous picture.

I had the latest firmware installed, tried plugging directly into the VM feed, tried splitters and boosters, had a variable attentuer attached etc

£85 is good but I just don't think it's worth the all the hassle of constantly having to re-scan and watching distorted channels it drives you up the wall.

On a positive note when the VM guy came round he offered me a special upgrade *nudge nudge wink wink* which I have gone for and works brilliantly.

He also told me that VM are onto Euorvoxes and that sooner rather than later they won't work - He may have just been saying this but I decided to cut my losses with the Eurovox.

Anybody else had consistant problems? Maybe i'm just unlucky!

[gji25]

must be your unlucky... many happy users of ev up and down the country. maybe it was something to do with user error ? maybe not.
anyway glad your all sorted now

[Watto]

yeah, very unusual that man, mine working fine, had to rescan once so far (had it 2 months>) and that was only to get ESPN when it launched.

out of interest what was the nudge :P

[cheltenhamboy]

Had my Max V for over 2 years and have supplied many a friend with diiferent boxes all with no probs, i think you were just unlucky.

Also interested in what the "virgin special" was?

[earthworm]

gotta agree with the other posters,sounds like you were just unlucky.ive had my box a cpl of months with no problems(touch wood).i tell a lie,had to do a channel update to get espn back but you can't really call that a problem!

[temple3]

Gotta agree with the other chaps - I think you may be just unlucky. I live in Glasgow area and my Eurovox 1000 has worked a treat - firmware upgrades and all - for the past 3 years. Think it is a magic bit of kit.

[waqasahmed]

Originally Posted by GJP10

He also told me that VM are onto Euorvoxes and that sooner rather than later they won't work - He may have just been saying this but I decided to cut my losses with the Eurovox.

Anybody else had consistant problems? Maybe i'm just unlucky!

It does seem you have been unlucky. Also, the VM engineer probably wants you to buy from him instead. After all, if VM are on to Eurovoxs, they are also onto engineers who steal receivers from the van, who then modify them and sell them to you making massive profits

[TheCoder]

Some VM Engineers who are running these "special deals" will deliberately turn your signal levels down to a bare minimum. They know that the tuners in most of the non VM boxes cant cope well with UK signal levels.

[waqasahmed]

you could always use a signal booster

[MorriSoft]

Originally Posted by TheCoder

Some VM Engineers who are running these "special deals" will deliberately turn your signal levels down to a bare minimum. They know that the tuners in most of the non VM boxes cant cope well with UK signal levels.

Our signal levels are only just above the accepted minimum and we've not experienced any issues with the Eurovox EX7000 regarding picture quality etc. but the VM box upstairs has light breakup on some of the discovery channels during the day!