Skybox F5 & F5s - Rebooting every 2/3 minutes

[DW190]

What's your opinion on Cloud iBox II ?

I tried an Openbox s6000 but wasn't over impressed as it didn't have a fan

Get one with a fan and they should run better.

You will need a good bit more educating if you have only played with Skyboxes though.

[yasminandrio]

I don't really get some people! I've been in this game for a good while now! And other members on here who I consider good dk friends have been in t even longer, and then you get people in it 5 mins and they think they no everything about every ****ing box!, if you want a good cheap easy to set up box with one of the best pictures out there and all you want it for is watching Tv then these boxes are the best on the market, if its going to be a hobby and you want it for movie streaming and recording one channel while watching another, and you want to spend hours reading up or even weeks I would say then spend some real money and buy a VU Duo +, the skyboxes have great support and the epg has to be the best for its money and so much easier to set up then any other box! And I don't have any model of the skyboxes but I've installed many for my customers and touch wood I've set them up myself and none of my customers have had a problem, yes I've had faulty boxes but that's what happens when so many are made but if I see they are faulty I send it back and I they send me a new one, I have never bought a clone so I can't comment on them but for the money and for someone just wanting to watch SLY for cheap it's the best starting point. Hundreds of thousands have been sold within the last year so they must be worth the money or people wouldn't buy them. End of

[digicon]

The Skybox/Openbox Range have become very popular for one reason and one reason alone: Cheap access simple as that.

They are Plug & Play and i would say 90% of Buyers are traders looking for the easiest solution to replace the Long dead Cable Box or people getting fed up with a certain Kryptview

[yasminandrio]

The pictures great easy to set up most people who buy them buy them cause they want a cheap and easy way to watch sly which with Linux boxes its not cheap and easy. Traders buy them because there's a market for this like you said. But what I'm saying is there good boxes for what they do if you have used one you would agree the picture quality is far better than most boxes which are four times the price. The supports class as so many have been sold and the epg now is the best for the money. It's easy to update you can't really go wrong unlike other boxes so for the money IMHO it's the best box out there for the money!

[DW190]

I don't really get some people! I've been in this game for a good while now! And other members on here who I consider good dk friends have been in t even longer, and then you get people in it 5 mins and they think they no everything about every ****ing box!, if you want a good cheap easy to set up box with one of the best pictures out there and all you want it for is watching Tv then these boxes are the best on the market, if its going to be a hobby and you want it for movie streaming and recording one channel while watching another, and you want to spend hours reading up or even weeks I would say then spend some real money and buy a VU Duo +, the skyboxes have great support and the epg has to be the best for its money and so much easier to set up then any other box! And I don't have any model of the skyboxes but I've installed many for my customers and touch wood I've set them up myself and none of my customers have had a problem, yes I've had faulty boxes but that's what happens when so many are made but if I see they are faulty I send it back and I they send me a new one, I have never bought a clone so I can't comment on them but for the money and for someone just wanting to watch SLY for cheap it's the best starting point. Hundreds of thousands have been sold within the last year so they must be worth the money or people wouldn't buy them. End of

I agree. My F4 picture quality is far better than the Blade or some of the E2 I have set up.

If money wasn't a problem for folk and providers stopped pushing up their prices to pay the likes of the Beckhams and Roony's of this world these boxes would be dead and subscriptions would had by all.

I await the hecklers.

[digicon]

Its pretty basic knowledge that the STi and Sigma based video chipsets as used in most closed source receivers give a slightly better pronounced picture and colour rendition than any of the E2 Linux based Broadcom receivers Most likely due to the drivers.

Not 100% on this but i would have thought closed source such as the Blade,TM5402,Skybox,Openbox,Strong,Spiderbox,Clark e Tech would all use something like an STi or Sigma based chipset so should all be pretty much close to one another regarding picture quality

[yasminandrio]

I have had a spiderbox for many years and yes the picture is really good. I did pay quite a lot more money than you can pick up a skybox for but I did get a very good at the time something you can't talk about here but I wouldn't of been able to watch any paid channels on a sly beam. But with the skyboxes the picture is by far the best I've seen compared to any other closed source and I mean its noticeable and it provides the masses with a cheap affordable viewing which is what most people want. Most people are to busy in life to start a hobby in satellite as there's lots to learn for beginners and lots to keep up to date with these boxes are perfect for these guys. For these guys these boxes are best value and I don't think no one can argue with that.