I brought the Blade Media BM7000s a couple of days ago and can't say that I am overly impressed with the box, whilst the picture quality is
good and it's a HD box, it still lacks a few features:
Firstly there is only one USB port and that is at the back of the box, there don't seem to be any at the front...not a great idea for a top box
Also the EPG does not work 100% and reading through the forums there don't seem to be any known cure for this problem, some work some don't.
The box is on the latest patched file - BM7000s Oct 12 2012 89x
Whilst I have only been using it for a couple of days and there may be other features that don't work 100% as well as features that do
work well - is there a better box?
If there is I need:
To be able to watch HD channels
To record to a usb hard drive / stick and also have more than one USB port (and a must is the front usb port)
A EPG that works for every box...not just some boxes as with the 7000s
Also I noticed (and I ain't connected a hard drive yet) is that the hard drive has to be formatted to FAT32 and I thought that fat32 only
supports 4gig fles, but most MKV files are much much larger then 4gig, will the 7000s have problems in playing these files that are
larger than 4gig files from a hard drive / stick?
Whilst the 7000s has a LAN connection it doesn't seem to have the ability for a network wireless connection.
Is there a better box or it a case that the up-sides of the box far outweigh the downsides of the box?
Thanks
good and it's a HD box, it still lacks a few features:
Firstly there is only one USB port and that is at the back of the box, there don't seem to be any at the front...not a great idea for a top box
Also the EPG does not work 100% and reading through the forums there don't seem to be any known cure for this problem, some work some don't.
The box is on the latest patched file - BM7000s Oct 12 2012 89x
Whilst I have only been using it for a couple of days and there may be other features that don't work 100% as well as features that do
work well - is there a better box?
If there is I need:
To be able to watch HD channels
To record to a usb hard drive / stick and also have more than one USB port (and a must is the front usb port)
A EPG that works for every box...not just some boxes as with the 7000s
Also I noticed (and I ain't connected a hard drive yet) is that the hard drive has to be formatted to FAT32 and I thought that fat32 only
supports 4gig fles, but most MKV files are much much larger then 4gig, will the 7000s have problems in playing these files that are
larger than 4gig files from a hard drive / stick?
Whilst the 7000s has a LAN connection it doesn't seem to have the ability for a network wireless connection.
Is there a better box or it a case that the up-sides of the box far outweigh the downsides of the box?
Thanks