In summary: don't buy one .. read on for details.
Well I've ditched Sky .. was too expensive and the programming wasn't working for me (for the money). So I'm on the hunt again for a cheap satellite (terrestrial no good for me due to hills) receiver with PVR and EPG. So .. hunting around the Openbox S10 looks to to have the specs on paper (ethernet in, 1080i, usb pvr) .. all good.
Well almost.
Problems to date:
1. Lip Sync issues .. still working on a resolution
2. Record function has .. Once and Daily .. WTF? No weekly?
3. Recording locks the channel - limited to one transponder. OK so I should have checked the number of receivers/tunes, etc.
4. Recording output is a .dvr .. urg, yet to try conversion tools or playback as-is on laptop. Will update.
Still to test:
1. Ethernet - worryingly I can't see anything that looks like web-browsing capability on the menus. But I don't have it cabled so they may be disabled atm - will update.
2. Time-shift and proper / more extensive PVR to USB disk capability
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