I've been working with the July 31st firmware from Openbox S9 HD PVR,Skybox S9 HD PVR,Dreambox 500s,WIFI Bridge,HDMI Cable,LNB|SHENZHEN WANYING ELETRONICS LIMITED (The versions that say Skybox work on an Openbox.)
The blind-scan time seems to have improved dramatically, almost to its original speed, yet it still finds skinny transponders pretty reliably. I scanned 97w Ku in 2 minutes and 20 seconds, which is only slightly slower than before the scan parameters were changed originally, and 91w Ku in 5 minutes 13 seconds, which is much better than the 9+ minutes the previous new versions took. It finds Telemundo on 79w Ku, and Harold Camping and the other gospel channel on 72w Ku.
The only annoyance I've found so far is that the "Moving dish" message stays on screen much longer than it should when changing channels, but if you've arrived on the proper satellite you can hit the Exit button to get rid of it.
I haven't played with the PVR options at all yet, but the new version is supposed to let you record a .TS file instead of the .DVR files that the previous versions did, and also record an MPEG2 file (if from an MPEG2 source) just like the REALLY old versions did. The only drawback is that it won't play .DVR files.
Lastly, no, the clock still doesn't work. And I haven't checked whether LAN file loading works like it did in some of the other new versions. I'll probably check that tomorrow (right now the box isn't even plugged into my LAN), since, with the blind scan getting fixed and the elimination of the need to convert recordings to view on a computer, it looks like I'll be keeping this version loaded.
The blind-scan time seems to have improved dramatically, almost to its original speed, yet it still finds skinny transponders pretty reliably. I scanned 97w Ku in 2 minutes and 20 seconds, which is only slightly slower than before the scan parameters were changed originally, and 91w Ku in 5 minutes 13 seconds, which is much better than the 9+ minutes the previous new versions took. It finds Telemundo on 79w Ku, and Harold Camping and the other gospel channel on 72w Ku.
The only annoyance I've found so far is that the "Moving dish" message stays on screen much longer than it should when changing channels, but if you've arrived on the proper satellite you can hit the Exit button to get rid of it.
I haven't played with the PVR options at all yet, but the new version is supposed to let you record a .TS file instead of the .DVR files that the previous versions did, and also record an MPEG2 file (if from an MPEG2 source) just like the REALLY old versions did. The only drawback is that it won't play .DVR files.
Lastly, no, the clock still doesn't work. And I haven't checked whether LAN file loading works like it did in some of the other new versions. I'll probably check that tomorrow (right now the box isn't even plugged into my LAN), since, with the blind scan getting fixed and the elimination of the need to convert recordings to view on a computer, it looks like I'll be keeping this version loaded.