Is Starview 4 "The Box Super" USB PVR any good?

[morpheus]

Hi guys,

Complete newbie at this sort of thing but thinking of getting a Starview 4 "The Box Super" USB PVR?

Can anyone tell me if its any good and if I am likely to get plenty of use out of it before it stops being supported or whatever?

Is it easy for a newbie to use? I understand you can update the firmware (which I can download from here?) from a USB pen and its a simple as that?!?!?

Cheers guys, Merry Christmas.

[jazzylover]

Hi mate,

Saw your posts on the forum about the Starview 4 "The Box Super" USB PVR.

Just wondering if its any good? I'm thinking of getting one myself but being a total newb at this, wanted something easy to use.

Can you let me know how you are getting on with it?

Is it easy to update the firmware?

WTF are EMU and Keys.... I assume keys are just codes you get off the forum and type them in.

Cheers.

Hi morpeus I thought I?d put your PM here as it?s similar to your thread question and others can adjust any inaccuracies.

I actually bought two boxes the other one was a Eurovox 5000 pvr. I played about with the Eurovox 5000 pvr first and I have to admit that it was quite straight forward, it did what it said on the tin and it was running in no time. The Starview 4 "The Box Super" USB PVR was a little more difficult. Not that the process of getting it up and running is any more difficult than any other box in fact it?s a little simpler, but merely the fact that it is relatively a new box and there isn?t an abundance of information on it as there is with other boxes at the moment. Once I found this forum with it?s specialised section, it made it easier.

I?ve only had the firmware (1.06 from the download section) running since yesterday but it seems fine. This being my third box I would quite easily say that the Starview 4 "The Box Super" USB PVR. Has the best and most professional interface and so is easier to use.

Firmware updating is extremely simple. In fact it?s the easiest of the three boxes I?ve dealt with (Replay box PVR, Eurovox 5000 pvr and the Starview 4 "The Box Super" USB PVR) not that there hard. You simply put the firmware on a USB stick. Then insert it into the back of The Box Super" USB PVR, then select the file from the relevant menu and follow the prompts.

EMU at a guess stands for emulator. The official boxes from the cable company have cards inserted into them which help to decrypt encrypted channels. Our boxes have Emulator which emulates this feature thus allowing you to watch encrypted channels without the need for a card. With the emulator enabled you cable box retrieves the keys

Keys are a set of codes used to help your box decrypt encrypted channels. Keys are normally used when your Emulator is not functioning correctly. If the emulator is working then you need not enter any keys.

In regards to recommending it I?ve only had it a couple of days and working for one so my opinion is not really worth much but feel If this box gets good support then I would recommend this whole heartedly.

Hope that helps

Jazzy

[dazrite]

Hi,are the latest code (s) available for ' the box super usb starview 4 ' and if so,where can they be had from.

Thanks

[bigfella]

Hi,are the latest code (s) available for ' the box super usb starview 4 ' and if so,where can they be had from.

Thanks

u can the lastest firmware from either the red stickys or in the downloads section on this site ...1.07 is wat u need .....u can also get a tutorial on how to flash ur box in the downloads section

[nsw9154]

Hello i have had a sv4 for about 6 month now and it is great, set up with v1.07 and a 500gig Maxtor External HD with seperate power supply i have been able to record and convert programs to DVD on my PC using WinAvi vidio converter - you can convert the ts files to avi files and with AVI MPEG RM WMV Spliter you can trim the start and end of the file if it has adverts then i use AVI MPEG RM WMV joiner to join the edited sections together after a bit of practice it is easy i use it mainly for concerts and music progs on sky arts 1 but you can do it with any thing and with them being converted to AVI files you can leave them like that or convert them to DVD i hope this is helpfull

[jedimaster]

Hello i have had a sv4 for about 6 month now and it is great, set up with v1.07 and a 500gig Maxtor External HD with seperate power supply i have been able to record and convert programs to DVD on my PC using WinAvi vidio converter - you can convert the ts files to avi files and with AVI MPEG RM WMV Spliter you can trim the start and end of the file if it has adverts then i use AVI MPEG RM WMV joiner to join the edited sections together after a bit of practice it is easy i use it mainly for concerts and music progs on sky arts 1 but you can do it with any thing and with them being converted to AVI files you can leave them like that or convert them to DVD i hope this is helpfull

Hi,
While recording a programme to the Hard drive have you found that the actual picture and sound that is on the TV starts to freeze and jerk. This happens only while the recording is taking place? Have you found this problem?

[nsw9154]

Format your USB device in fat, and use the sv4 to format it and not pc.

Use a HDD that has it owns ext power supply and not using the USB of the sv4 to power it.

JoK

yea what jok says is right i 1st formated my Maxtor 500 on the PC and it froze and stuttered all the time so i formated it with the SV4 and everything is unky dorry

[jedimaster]

How have you partitioned your Maxtor 500GB HD as I have read that FAT32 only supports 32GB partitions?

[desidunda]

Hi Jazzylover thanks for the input after having a read in this forum i have ordered mine and should get it tomorrow will let you all guys know how i get along with this box. i have had a fta101 b4 for about 3 years which have served its purpose well all i ad to do was enter the keys and it was up and running but now it does not get any channels and i get no signal message tried to update the firmware with null modem cross over cable but no luck anyway getting my new box now so might try to fix it later for the bedroom.
any ideas are welcome

[andy3333]

Hello i have had a sv4 for about 6 month now and it is great, set up with v1.07 and a 500gig Maxtor External HD with seperate power supply i have been able to record and convert programs to DVD on my PC using WinAvi vidio converter - you can convert the ts files to avi files and with AVI MPEG RM WMV Spliter you can trim the start and end of the file if it has adverts then i use AVI MPEG RM WMV joiner to join the edited sections together after a bit of practice it is easy i use it mainly for concerts and music progs on sky arts 1 but you can do it with any thing and with them being converted to AVI files you can leave them like that or convert them to DVD i hope this is helpfull

hi,

i have had my sv4 for about 3months and used an external HD with caddy that had its own power supply, however my boxs psu got burn't out and i am blaming the HD as it started to smell a bit burny, at the time i switched both box n HD off then it wouldn't turn back on again so beware!!!

[sumit1988]

starview

hi mate...i have just recieved the starview 4 box today the..I am getting the $ sign on a majority the channels...

my starview box is version 1.05

this is the first time i have bought one and dont know anything about this...

could you help please

thanks
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[DanTheMan101]

i just buying one of these boxes as we speak i will post and let people know how i get on with it all as i am a complete newbie

DanTheMan

[mtv1]

where you at dan if in eire dont bother m8

[kcnbob]

Hi sorry if this has been posted before but I'm new to this, I was wondering, Is it possible to watch another channel whilst recording, I read somewhere about a loop cable but nothing has been mentioned since and was wondering if this works, if so where do I get one from and how do I install it??
I asked this in another thread and was forwarded here..
Thanks for any help given..

[glic83]

ill 2nd that get suomething like a kryptview or igate as they are the only 1's working on n2 at the moment