miraclebox hd

[cushty]

was thinking about getting one of these boxes apparently they run cable and satellite has anybody had experience of them, how is the support for them,are they easy to set up any advice appreciated thanks in advance

[loncell]

Got 1 wingin it's way to me, will let you know by the weekend if the "Miracle Premium mini COMBO twin sat/cable tuner" is any good. I have the Q5 DVB HD, a Amiko mini HD T2/C so I can give a true once for all comparison of the 3 new kids on the block:-

1) price

2) easy to set up

3) Quality of picture

4) Support ( all important)

and finally

5) final conclusion with a score out of 10

[lombard]

Got 1 wingin it's way to me, will let you know by the weekend if the "Miracle Premium mini COMBO twin sat/cable tuner" is any good. I have the Q5 DVB HD, a Amiko mini HD T2/C so I can give a true once for all comparison of the 3 new kids on the block:-

1) price

2) easy to set up

3) Quality of picture

4) Support ( all important)

and finally

5) final conclusion with a score out of 10

HI, i can already answer you that

1 - yes it costs more, because its enigma 2 box much more advanced then closed sourced boxes

2 - its not as easy to setup as the closed sourced boxes, but thats the fun in it, enigma 2 , can set up how ever you like and customize if your used to enigma 2 then wont have any problems

3 - picture quality is same

4 - its well supported , you can use different images, i very much like VIX images, best inbuilt EPG, great forum support , and its already got Autobouquet Maker for Cable as well as Sat, create a list for both in 2mins and in perfect order, no messing with scanning , thats the fun with Enigma 2 boxes

[kaisar1]

is cable autobouquet same as satellite one????????? and how fast is the box compared to solo2 receiver?

[darcu5]

I have one and yes on the new vix apollo firmware has abm for cable and works fine, setting up the cable side took me a few hours as i hadn't use the mg_***. I put 1.38 on it, numerous configs and finally got it working perfectly, good little box for the money.
I had originally tried to turn my gigablue 800se into a cable and sat box but the cable part i got didnt work so i got a newer box instead

[cushty]

cheers folks,loncell would still be interested in your thoughts on the box so let me know i have no knowledge of enigma but would hope with help off people like yourselves i could set it up ,are there any tuts. on the site maybe you could point me in the right direction cheers

[warhead1999]

I have the mini combo great box running sat and cable

[loncell]

I have the mini combo great box running sat and cable

Mine will be here this morn with VIX on it. Is there any little set up tips I should know ?

[darcu5]

Find your net id for cable side, then set this in you configs for abm you can do sly n cable boquets at same time. dead easy to set up.. i found if i opened the ............... list through ftp and edited it then i struggled as sometimes the changes didnt take effect, was better to have a ............... list on pc and make the changes on pc then drag the whole file across to usr/keys worked everytime, cable side most use ............ few use .......... but none like u using ........... so i kept ... for sly and ...... for cable, just swap and change the cam as required (only one will run at once i think)

[loncell]

1) price
Amiko combo HD ?69 Amiko mini HD ?49 - Q5 DVB HD ?64.99 - Miraclebox Premium combo HD ?159

2) easy to set up
Q5 DVB HD the easiest
Amiko mini HD 2nd (does have youtube etc)
Amiko mini combo HD trickier (does have youtube etc)
Miraclebox combo mini HD hardest to set up but once done very clever box

3) Quality of picture
Miraclebox good quality on both sat and cable
all the other 3 very much on par with each other

4) Support ( all important)
Miraclebox runnig VIX light years ahead
Amiko does have regular FW updates
Q5 DVB HD also has updates but if it's not broken dont fix it.

and finally

5) final conclusion with a score out of 10[/QUOTE]
Miraclebox HD combo 9/10
Q5 DVB 8/10 (purely on ease of set up)
Amiko hd boxes 7/10 are abit trickier and need certain files to be rewrtten if using USB.

If you are new to boxes go for the Q5 DVB HD, easy to set up
if you have some previous experience then Amiko needs abit more doings to get it up and running
If you want a good quality box with regular updates and thing like youtube and IPTV then the Miraclebox.

[blueflash234]

i would have thought a 800se with c tuner would be one of the easiest if your used to engima 2? maybe not?with the pound being strong at the moment at about 120 delivered

[byrnemeister]

Do any of these run the cable side in HD.

I've been looking at the Miracle box with the additional Hybrid DVB-C/T/T2, but I assumed this
is SD cable or HD Freeview.

[digicon]

DVB-C is a slightly different standard to DVB-T2 which is Freeview HD, any DVB-C tuner in a HD receiver will pick up the High definition channels

[andy91]

Easiest box must be the Dreambox 800hd. Nearly all sat enthusiasts have used one or own one and all you need to do is swap the tuner over and change a couple of things.

Andy

[byrnemeister]

DVB-C is a slightly different standard to DVB-T2 which is Freeview HD, any DVB-C tuner in a HD receiver will pick up the High definition channels

I did not know that, thanks for the info