amiko alien 2 triple or alien 8900??

ufc pro

hey lads,
im new to the whole satelite thing, so be gentle, im currently using a skybox f5, which is a bit hit and miss to be honest, its good when it works but it rarely works well, so iv decided to upgrade.ive been looking at the amiko range and reading some of the threads here they seem to be pretty good, my question is whats the difference between the alien 2 triple tuner and the alien 8900? i know one has a triple tuner and one is single but in terms of performance is there much difference, they both have dual boot so apart from the tuners what is the difference? is the 8900 still a good box?

thanks for the help, any input would be great!

steveon

ufc pro wrote: »

hey lads,
im new to the whole satelite thing, so be gentle, im currently using a skybox f5, which is a bit hit and miss to be honest, its good when it works but it rarely works well, so iv decided to upgrade.ive been looking at the amiko range and reading some of the threads here they seem to be pretty good, my question is whats the difference between the alien 2 triple tuner and the alien 8900? i know one has a triple tuner and one is single but in terms of performance is there much difference, they both have dual boot so apart from the tuners what is the difference? is the 8900 still a good box?

thanks for the help, any input would be great!

The Amiko 8900 is now quite old and lacks internal memory so runs a little slow when running software, enigma 2 images are available but I personally would recommend the Amiko Alien2 over it due to more internal memory and more ppl supporting it... it is also well supported here on Boards and a couple of great images and backups are shown her...

However a better alternative in my opinion to both would be the Gigablue range again faster than both the Amiko Aliens....and not much more expensive in price. The gigablue quad 800 is what I have and its awesome value but the 800se + Or Ue range are nice also....and World of satellite have just released a new Image called Vix Zeus which is so far Im having no problems with :

ufc pro

thanks for the reply my friend, but they seem very expensive! alot more than i can spend at the minute, maybe ill go for the alien 2, there seems to be alot of support for them, just new to this, i like the way you can stream to other devices, thats pretty cool!!

steveon

You definitely want the Alien2 over the Alien 1!!!

ufc pro

just out of interest, where did you get your gigablue from??

steveon

ufc pro wrote: »

just out of interest, where did you get your gigablue from??

At the time I bought it from

http://www.hm-sat-shop.de/en/

Big Wex fan

ufc pro wrote: »

just out of interest, where did you get your gigablue from??

Probably too late to reply but I got my golden media triplex around this time last year from Germany all in for 150 E. Checked last week & best I could find was 165E( ebay.de). The GM triplex & alien 2 are same box only different badges. The images for the alien 2 are pretty good compared to 12 months ago.