WHICH IS THE VERY BEST EPG FOR THE ET9200?

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As a potential Xtrend Buyer I found your observations very interesting. PQ is very important to me as well so I found the comments about Vix concerning as I had pretty much settled on going with this image.

Can I ask what drawbacks you found with the CT image?

Also, have you made any comparisons PQ wise between the Extrend and the Duo?

Sorry to go off topic...

You would probably be hard pressed to tell the difference picture quality wise via a Duo or an Xtrend, unless of course you had a calman pro video meter at hand.

All i can say as an ex ET9000 owner is that the Xtrend/CT use a different upgraded broadcom video processor compared to the Duo as they offer PIP facility and the Duo does not so in theory the Xtrend/CT receiver should give you a better picture what ever image you use.

Xtrend/CT use a Broadcom 7413 chipset and the Duo uses a 7335 chipset seeing as the Xtrend is newer around 14 months old compared to the Duo circa Oct2009.

The same 7413 chipset is also used in the Vu+ Uno and the new Ultimo.

As for the Vix image it is user friendly and great for a beginner but it crammed full of shit which in return green screens a lot if you try and set up other plugins, I tried coolmans guide which would work now and again and 1 or 2 other plugins which made it crash, i eventually settled on OpenPLI due to the fact that every plugin i tried worked and it never green screened.

[Midnight Rider]

You would probably be hard pressed to tell the difference picture quality wise via a Duo or an Xtrend, unless of course you had a calman pro video meter at hand.

I use Cromapure and an i1 Pro meter, perfect recipe for long nights and cronic backache

Thanks for the advice though, I've pretty much decieded to go with the Extrend.

Just need to research openpli now.

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I use Cromapure and an i1 Pro meter, perfect recipe for long nights and cronic backache

Thanks for the advice though, I've pretty much decieded to go with the Extrend.

Just need to research openpli now.

Nice gear i know what you mean with the backache, the squinting eyes dont help either from the test displays LOL

[zanty]

there is an enimga2 pts plugin which fixes these probs just to let you know

[garry1312]

As a potential Xtrend Buyer I found your observations very interesting. PQ is very important to me as well so I found the comments about Vix concerning as I had pretty much settled on going with this image.

Can I ask what drawbacks you found with the CT image?

Also, have you made any comparisons PQ wise between the Extrend and the Duo?

Sorry to go off topic...

Nothing technically wrong with the ct image mate just not my cup of tea and buttons could be paired better.

Lack of Permanent timeshift on the xtrend is really starting to annoy me we have a 1 year old in the house and at times you need the option to rewind live tv as you can miss a lot. all i can say is if pts is a must dont get one.

there is an enimga2 pts plugin which fixes these probs just to let you know

The plugins for pts dont work on it mate thats what i am getting at. ViX image has PTS built in which is pointless as it does not work. If you mention this to the ViX team you are adviced to pause it when you go on to a channel then play then you will be able to rewind which defeats the purpose of PTS and is in no way at all PTS.

[zanty]

*cough* why are you using vix? :O
hdfreaks is way better

[Midnight Rider]

@ garry1312

Please keep us updated with your observations regarding the differences between the images.

I'm especially interested in the PQ aspects.

Cheers

[garry1312]

*cough* why are you using vix? :O
hdfreaks is way better

You got a link or anything to the latest HDFreaks image mate cant seem to find it :/

@ garry1312

Please keep us updated with your observations regarding the differences between the images.

I'm especially interested in the PQ aspects.

Cheers

Will do mate.

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You got a link or anything to the latest HDFreaks image mate cant seem to find it :/

This is the latest HDFreaks image 4.5 from 23.12.2011

http://www.mediafire.com/?4513d9f3xtf3mzw

[garry1312]

Is there not a 4.6 hdf mate sure i have heard people mention it?

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Is there not a 4.6 hdf mate sure i have heard people mention it?

You are correct sir a 20 second search on google and Voil?!

HDFreaks 4.6 ET9x00

http://www.mediafire.com/?4hnoi4gmt51vmkz

[garry1312]

Thank you mate. will give this a try tonight. heard that PTS works on hdf but not sure as it more seems to be a xtrend driver issue than a image issue.

[zanty]

4.6 is really pretty awesome
take a good look at the plugins sections as well

[garry1312]

4.6 is really pretty awesome
take a good look at the plugins sections as well

Is PTS working on this mate the way it should. Able to rewind a channel without having to press pause when you first zap to the channel?

[RuberDuck]

As for the Vix image it is user friendly and great for a beginner but it crammed full of shit which in return green screens a lot if you try and set up other plugins, I tried coolmans guide which would work now and again and 1 or 2 other plugins which made it crash, i eventually settled on OpenPLI due to the fact that every plugin i tried worked and it never green screened.

I think you will find ViX is one of the slimmest images going, as for external plugins thats nothing to do with us. Coolepg is closed source so we can not touch it, we asked the author if he would fix it but he said he has no intentions to make it work with vix so complain to him.

if you have crash logs submit them.