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AZBOX /Elite / HD / Premium
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I have a Premium now and installed a HDD yesterday, it was from a Sky HD box and was already formatted in FAT 32 so it had no problem being recognised (I have heard that new drives or ones without partitions work best). I formatted it from the AZBox and everything worked fine, am able to record to it etc.
What I was VERY impressed with was the Timeshift function, as it does it 'properly' and not only can you Pause live TV but also rewind, IMHO it handles it better than even a Sky box as it displays a nice bar showing where timeshift is available from (i.e. the point you changed to that channel), where you are watching right now and how far ahead Live TV is.
The only thing I was a bit dissapointed about was that hitting Record whilst in Timeshift doesn't record from the memory cache like a Sky box will but then I'm sure a firmware fix will sort this out down the line, I mean how many years did Sky+ exist without this feature??
So much potential in this box, can't wait until it replaces my Sky HD box
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Just a word of caution, if you bought a Premium be careful connecting up the HDD, see here:
http://www.azboxhd.nl/InstallHDD.pdf
Thanks for the info!0 -
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Being experimenting with some HD movies I have (I own both Blu-Ray's and HD-DVD's) and even though there are some bugs that need ironing out I am getting some good results, these are a good indication of what the AZBox is capable of with future firmware upgrades.
Quite by coincidence I found that the AZBox can access the HD/BluRay drive on my PC directly, it can't play Blu-Ray's or HD-DVD's as these are encrypted but it can access files on a disc which is kinda cool.
Anyway, I ripped one of my Blu-Ray's to my hard drive both as an ISO and as a Rip (i.e. files and folders), the AZBox couldn't play the ISO but was able to play the Blu-Ray movie files (.m2ts) and played them but they were jerky which is caused by the known network bandwidth limitation that has been set by the developers until the new Sigma drivers are out.
I then used the AZBox's File Manager and transferred one of the .m2ts files to the internal HDD and it played perfectly.
I had heard some rumours about the AZBox's possible ability to play HD DVD's, even that connecting a XBox's HD DVD drive would work, well I tried that and it didn't work, then I tried Ripping the movie as above and neither the ISO or .evo files worked so I thought that was a dead duck, however a member on another forum suggested 'tricking' the AZBox into playing it by changing the name of the file from a .evo to a .m2ts and it actually worked! Without sound but it still actually played it so I am very pleased!
Hopefully quite soon I'll be able to keep all my HD DVD's and Blu-Ray's on HDD and play them from my AZBox's, looks like this machine has the potential to fulfil all my requirements of my dream system, next stop is getting it to record to a NAS so that both machines can watch what each other has recorded! :cool:0 -
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Just found this:
http://www.sigmadesigns.com/public/Products/selection_guide/selection_guide.html
Look under the Chip the AZBox uses (which is the SMP8634) some quite interesting specs there
And a more detailed pdf below:
http://www.sigmadesigns.com/public/Products/SMP8630/pdf_files/SMP8630_br.pdf0 -
Ok, I have achieved another of my personal goals with the AZBox, central PVR storage! Basically I have my Elite and Premium recording to the same folders on my PC's hard drive so that either box can watch what the other has recorded! Plus I can edit the files directly with VideoRedo, up 'til now I have been lugging the USB drive to the PC or FTP'ing them back and forth.
My NAS arrives on Monday so will set that up so I don't have to have the PC on all the time, plus it can live in the attic beside the router, out of everyone's way (high WAF!).
As a side note I discovered that while my Premium was recording a movie that the Elite could actually access and start watching it, only up to the point where the movie was when I started playing the file though, if you know what I mean but I am hoping that I or someone else will discover a way of watching the entire movie that way, it certainly would be very handy!
Also, in the latest firmware there is now the possibility to add an IP channel and stream stuff from your PC, an exciting proposition is not only streaming movies or even tv/ sat card outputs but also webcam's! My next little project, watch this space...0 -
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Didnt notice the date:o, the AZbox HD developer site was active in the last day or so. Hopefully the updates keep coming. I am reasonably happy with my Elite. It works. Bugs n all.
When the big boys on the block (DMM) start feeling threatened by a STB that's only been out a few months then feel rest assured that you have bought into the right thing
Every few days I get my AZBox to do something new and revised firmware is coming along all the time, I'm perfectly happy with it, I truly believe we will have the Freesat EPG, twin tuners, DVB-T tuners and "record one watch another" VERY soon, if you follow any of the big forums who have AZBox communities you can see the groundswell of support building but I don't blame anybody who wants to wait until all of things are implemented, in the meantime I will keep reporting on the (sometimes trivial) things I have managed to do.0 -
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