twin cable

[Fahy87]

i know this has been asked before by others but ive searched the forum and cant get a distinct answer.

i want a box that i can record and watch on, since the h3/h5.2tc is discontinued what would be my best options? my budget is £150 tops

 

[Willo3092]

Mutant HD51 or Zgemma H7C and disable the sat tuner

 

[cactikid]

Why disable the sat tuner if you have both cable and sat services?

 

[Fahy87]

Mutant HD51 or Zgemma H7C and disable the sat tuner

Can these bot lh record and watch another with 1 line or would I need another

 

[Willo3092]

Depends on the provider but it's usually okay.

 

[cactikid]

1 line for cable
1 line for sat

 

[Willo3092]

Why disable the sat tuner if you have both cable and sat services?

Just working on the title of the post 'Twin Cable'

 

[Fahy87]

Just working on the title of the post 'Twin Cable'

I won't be using sat just cable

 

[cactikid]

@willo will let you away with that as he wont go for a triple or quad box.

 

[pabloescaban]

Mutant HD51 or Zgemma H7C and disable the sat tuner

I may have dreamt this but wasn't there some talk of the ARM Zgemma models being a bit flakey? - something concerning the early ARM processors? - can't remember exactly

 

[cactikid]

@ pablo They wont have a leg to stand on then

 

[Willo3092]

The mutant HD51 was the first arm box I bought and it's absolutely rock solid, never had an issue with it.
Don't really know if there are issues with the zgemma boxes but I'm pretty sure they have the same spec as the mutant.

 

[pabloescaban]

@ pablo They wont have a leg to stand on then

<groan>
i think it was @wooshman who was on about it a few months ago, although it could have been @dsayers2014

 

[wooshman]

The H9 range seem to have some "quirks" when doing different things. The biggest being when you pause something on E2iPlayer it may not unpause after about 2 minutes. If you manage to exit E2iPlayer the paused screen will remain on the screen. Restart the GUI and the paused screen is still there requiring a full reboot of the box.

This info has been passed on but I haven't tested in the last day or so to see if this issue has been fixed. It is the only range of boxes I have seen this happening on.