Total Noob

[shady77]

Hi all, new member.
I am looking to move from my digivox cable box (good)
and my starview (rubbish) to 2 dreambox 500c's.
I have a few questions before i take the plunge though.
1: How easy are these to set up? Is there a step by step tut anywhere?
2: i realise that these boxes can connect to the webbernet to download new stuff, but is there a browser plug in available? it would be great if i could surf the web on my 47".
3: Do these boxes auto update the keys?
4: whats the epg like? Ive been searching all morning and cannot find an image/video of it in action..
5: when you scan for channels on my digivox/starview, most are correctly named, annoyingly though, about 10-15 channels simply show as TV717 or something similar and I have to manually rename them. Does drambox have this fault?

Can I apolopgise in advance for all these questions? Here i am a totally new user and all i'm doing is sayings "tell me this"! "tell me this too"! :-)
If i buy these though, I am the sort of person to tinker and find out loads of stuff, so hopefully in the future i will be ablt to help others.
Thanks in advance! :-):unionflag::beer:

[Bonesy]

[QUOTE=shady77;34323]Hi all, new member.
1: How easy are these to set up? Is there a step by step tut anywhere?
2: i realise that these boxes can connect to the webbernet to download new stuff, but is there a browser plug in available? it would be great if i could surf the web on my 47".
3: Do these boxes auto update the keys?
4: whats the epg like? Ive been searching all morning and cannot find an image/video of it in action..
5: when you scan for channels on my digivox/starview, most are correctly named, annoyingly though, about 10-15 channels simply show as TV717 or something similar and I have to manually rename them. Does drambox have this fault?

QUOTE]

1. Very easy, just flash the image onto the box and do a scan.
2. You can download updates but not sure if browser plugin....I havent seen one.
3. Yes they do.
4. Epg is good, gives like 12hrs of listings.
5. All channels listed correctly on my box, there are some extra test channels but I have mine setup not to show them.

[shady77]

thanks bonesy, whats the best image out there to put on this box?

[Sig-gotyouth]

doood. in terms of support for said img and while I dont have any other experience with other img's I do reccomend the Digital Kaos one... also if your a complete noob though I doubt it seeing as you had old boxes check out my thread... a few down from this one... I pretty much came across every noob problem and with the help of the forum figured it out ;)

[Donnie Darko]

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[shady77]

many thanks to all who posted. i'm going to order me one tonight.:beer: