Giga blue quad plus worth a look?

[westkill]

have you compared it to any other type of sat stb box m8 on the certain channels

[happy_highlander]

Right you have two options with this one. Both involve the plug and play tuner slots. Compare the sd on the fixed tuner with the same sd channel on a plug and play sat tuner if you can get hold of one or test it against the same channel on a cable or terrestrial feed. If the problem is with an fta channel westkill can test it with his terrestial feed if it isn't on fta let me know what channels they are and I'll test them with a cable feed on Thursday if my box arrives that is. It is very possible the tuner is not coping very well with weaker frequencies

[digicon]

I have just done a quick test on a Vu Ultimo Ok i know its not the same receiver and all the slots on the Ultimo are Plug & Play but i compared BBC1 on Sat 28.2? east with BBC1 on Cable both SD versions and used the recall quick zap button to flick between both and for the life of me i could not tell the difference.

I must add that i do not set any of the picture processing adjustments on the receiver itself as my Tv's HDMI inputs are calibrated seperately

[rhurbarb]

I tried my dm800hd and my blade 7000s both had ok pictures .But when using the sharpness from the dm the pic improves when the scale went up when the giga went down in quality until it hit the middle .Its kinda like a radio not being tuned right to the frequency if that makes sense and the sharpness compensates.All checked on flava tv 28e with the emblem showing in the picture as a guide to the picture quality.Thanks guys
I did notice on bbc news 24 sd the red text blurred as well when testing ,thats not such a weak signal than the flava tv .If i can remember rightly it does that on all sd channels .I have not got the box here now as its gone back to the supplier.He seems to think this is normal on the gigablue .Rhurbarb

[RuberDuck]

Just like to say thank you to happy_highlander for helping with this, you'r results have been passed to Andy and Peter and will be included in to ABM's DVB-C scanner.

https://github.com/oe-alliance/oe-alliance-plugins/tree/master/AutoBouquetsMaker

Just like to update this and once again thank happy_highlander for contributing towards ABM with his area scan, this has now been added to the ABM GIT.

19.05.2014
- Update cable_virgin_GB.xml Added a region. Thanks to Happy_Highlander
- [AutoBouquetsMaker] remove Debug to stop BSOD.

[RuberDuck]

Just like to update this and once again thank happy_highlander for contributing towards ABM with his area scan, this has now been added to the ABM GIT.

Areas now supported.

00002 Glasgow
00013 Reading
00018 Northampton
00021 Belfast
40961 Barnsley 600MHz (Barnsley 1)
40962 Barnsley 860MHz (Barnsley 2)
40963 Sheffield 600MHz (Barnsley 3)
40964 Sheffield 860MHz (Barnsley 4)
40965 Knowsley 1
40966 Knowsley 2
40967 Preston 1
40968 Preston 2
40969 Gateshead
40970 Bristol 1 (ex Aztec)
40971 Bristol 2 (ex Aztec)
40973 Wolverhampton 1
40974 Wolverhampton 2
40975 Basildon 1
40976 Basildon 2
40977 Basildon 3
40978 Basildon 4
40979 Croydon
40980 Hayes
40981 Edinburgh 1 (SCOTLAND)
40982 Dundee (Edinburgh 2 SCOTLAND)
40983 TTA Knowsley DMC (Hayes_RHE)
40984 Uddingston (SCOTLAND)
40985 Haringey
40986 NGRHEE Knowsley
40987 Exeter
40988 Plymouth
40990 Barnsley 2 TRIALS
40995 Wolverhampton TRIALS
40998 Barnsley 1 TRIALS
40999 Perth (SCOTLAND)
41003 Edinburgh 1 TRIALS (SCOTLAND)
41008 Liverpool TDN TRIALS
41009 Falkirk (SCOTLAND)
41011 Birmingham 750
41013 TTA Knowsley 1 (Knowsley RHE)
41015 Birmingham TDN
41016 Liverpool TDN
41018 Preston TDN
41020 Crawley
41026 Southport
41040 Leeds TRIALS
41041 Bromley
41042 Portsmouth
41043 Poole
41044 Brighton
41045 Hersham
41046 Derby
41048 Manchester 3
41049 Peterborough
41050 Seven Kings
41051 Watford
41052 Ashford
41053 Leeds
41054 Wearside
41055 Norwich
41056 NGRHEE Bromley
41059 Brighton TRIALS
41060 Manchester 1
41061 Code Download Test (Portsmouth)
41063 Stoke (FF Manchester)
41064 York (FF Leeds)
41065 Portsmouth TRIALS
41066 Manchester 2
41067 TTA Bromley DMC (Bromley RHE)
41068 Manchester TRIALS
41069 Lewisham
41071 Southampton

[happy_highlander]

My box arrived today. Been on call though and just got in. The first thing I've noticed is the lack of a fan. Can anyone enlighten me on how hot these run with a 2.5" hdd in it

[nsw9154]

my Blade Combo has been packed away in its box since I got my Solo2 and I have never tried the Cable side of it always had it connected to a sat dish
so I thought that I would connect it up to my virgin cable and try it out
set it to Tuner 2 and gave it a go I got nothing only red signal bars didn't really think it would work
well it looks like a Duo2 or similar with a cable tuner will be my next purchase

[rhurbarb]

So as im a virgin customer through their broadband i can just buy a cable tuner and get their free package ,If so would i get their catchup service as well?

[westkill]

My box arrived today. Been on call though and just got in. The first thing I've noticed is the lack of a fan. Can anyone enlighten me on how hot these run with a 2.5" hdd in it

mine seems pretty cool in standby , and when in use i would say warmish but no more than any other stb but comparing it to my dm800 that got pretty warm at times or maybe cause dont seem so compact as me dreambox time will tell

[digicon]

So as im a virgin customer through their broadband i can just buy a cable tuner and get their free package ,If so would i get their catchup service as well?

Buy a cable tuner all you will get is the few free channels and no you wont get any catch up service

[happy_highlander]

Well I'm all plugged in and running the image that was in it for testing I can't see any significant difference in the sd on the quad the uno original tuner or the solo clone. They are very dependant on what is being broadcast. None of them are as good quality sd as my tm5402 though. Mind you the tm is connected to a much better tv Once the quad is set up properly I'll put it in the living room and find out just how it compares to the old tm

[westkill]

ok ive tryed opeenmips 4.0 image to start good image and stable added all me plugins works well no lag at all so backed that image up and settings to box and keept copy of me emingma2 folder
so time to try new image
openatv image flashed that nice image but restored settings but crashed the image so reflashed it and justed added me enigma2 folder i kept for me channels etc that worked fine added me plugins and all that but image started to lag slightly or i did something to make that happen so backed that image up
next image was hd freaks image which i like alot out of the 3 added all me stuff to this image works very fast response i thinks then in the menu image tools there an option called :i will do that for you but not all : so i try that see what it does and this script page appears and starts downloading loads of plugins thought it was never going to stop looool n thought this image is going to strugle now but works fine so i think this is top image for me at the moment so sticking with this one for a bit , just my thoughts i like this box a lot , yes im sad geting attached to a STB

[RuberDuck]

ok ive tryed opeenmips 4.0 image to start good image and stable added all me plugins works well no lag at all so backed that image up and settings to box and keept copy of me emingma2 folder
so time to try new image
openatv image flashed that nice image but restored settings but crashed the image so reflashed it and justed added me enigma2 folder i kept for me channels etc that worked fine added me plugins and all that but image started to lag slightly or i did something to make that happen so backed that image up
next image was hd freaks image which i like alot out of the 3 added all me stuff to this image works very fast response i thinks then in the menu image tools there an option called :i will do that for you but not all : so i try that see what it does and this script page appears and starts downloading loads of plugins thought it was never going to stop looool n thought this image is going to strugle now but works fine so i think this is top image for me at the moment so sticking with this one for a bit , just my thoughts i like this box a lot , yes im sad geting attached to a STB

settings backups are not cross image compatible, they will only work on the image they were created from.

[happy_highlander]

I'm having a mare with mine . When is VIX ready RD. 3 minutes to boot from deep standby using openatv open mips was ok but kept losing mounts when using both internal hdd and usb. Hdfreaks tonight for me then westkill