After hearing of all the fun you lucky Azbox owners were having (and experiencing a bit of stb-envy from it) I scraped my pennies together and got one. 
I bought it from azboxusa on ebay (like probably many reading this did) and I'm quite pleased. I paid for my Azbox Elite last Sunday and had it Wednesday morning, so shipping was very prompt. It comes in a priority mail medium size flat rate box which fits it perfectly with a little room on the end. The power plug adapter was not in the Azbox box itself, but loose in the priority mail box. The first pic shows all the accessories that comes with the Elite: remote, aaa batteries, power cord and plug adapter.
As I've heard in other posts about loose connections, I decided to pop the hood and take a look inside (pic #2). Not surprisingly I spotted the front panel connection was not properly seated and rectified that quickly enough. After that I tried to scrounge a new power cable from my technological bone-yard, but couldn't find anything, so I settled for using the halfway plugged in technique to make the plug adapter work.
I'll leave out all the crap I had to do to integrate it into my entertainment complex (also the fun getting my Harmony 550 remote setup to control it) for another post. Anyhow, I hooked it up, powered it on and was greeted with the setup screen in Dutch. I fixed that, adjusted various settings and updated the firmware to 0.9.3686 (subsequently went to 0.9.3877) and then celebrated by watching Vince Offer selling the Slap Chop in Spanish on Youtube (pic #3). I've got it setup on 99 with my bud and 101 with my ku setup.
I plugged the WD 320gb hard drive that I used with my Coolsat into it for the hell of it. It recognized it and it put a couple of folders on it, but it doesn't want to record to it. I tried it again the other night (with the newer firmware) and it actually said it was recording, but it locked up everything instead. I'll think I'll get another drive, since I've got too much stuff on this drive to clear it off and reformat anyhow. One interesting thing I noticed is that the Azbox won't play .ts files generated by the Coolsat. I'm not really surprised by this, since there isn't much out there that will play the .ts files it generates. Ironically, I tried playing a .ts file I edited and saved with VideoReDo on the Azbox and that worked fine (wouldn't play on the Coolsat).
All-in-all this thing is very slick indeed....kinda' like the PS3 of the FTA world. I'm looking forward to exploring this box's capabilities because I haven't really scratched the surface of it yet since I've been busy.
I bought it from azboxusa on ebay (like probably many reading this did) and I'm quite pleased. I paid for my Azbox Elite last Sunday and had it Wednesday morning, so shipping was very prompt. It comes in a priority mail medium size flat rate box which fits it perfectly with a little room on the end. The power plug adapter was not in the Azbox box itself, but loose in the priority mail box. The first pic shows all the accessories that comes with the Elite: remote, aaa batteries, power cord and plug adapter.
As I've heard in other posts about loose connections, I decided to pop the hood and take a look inside (pic #2). Not surprisingly I spotted the front panel connection was not properly seated and rectified that quickly enough. After that I tried to scrounge a new power cable from my technological bone-yard, but couldn't find anything, so I settled for using the halfway plugged in technique to make the plug adapter work.
I'll leave out all the crap I had to do to integrate it into my entertainment complex (also the fun getting my Harmony 550 remote setup to control it) for another post. Anyhow, I hooked it up, powered it on and was greeted with the setup screen in Dutch. I fixed that, adjusted various settings and updated the firmware to 0.9.3686 (subsequently went to 0.9.3877) and then celebrated by watching Vince Offer selling the Slap Chop in Spanish on Youtube (pic #3). I've got it setup on 99 with my bud and 101 with my ku setup.
I plugged the WD 320gb hard drive that I used with my Coolsat into it for the hell of it. It recognized it and it put a couple of folders on it, but it doesn't want to record to it. I tried it again the other night (with the newer firmware) and it actually said it was recording, but it locked up everything instead. I'll think I'll get another drive, since I've got too much stuff on this drive to clear it off and reformat anyhow. One interesting thing I noticed is that the Azbox won't play .ts files generated by the Coolsat. I'm not really surprised by this, since there isn't much out there that will play the .ts files it generates. Ironically, I tried playing a .ts file I edited and saved with VideoReDo on the Azbox and that worked fine (wouldn't play on the Coolsat).
All-in-all this thing is very slick indeed....kinda' like the PS3 of the FTA world.
I'm looking forward to exploring this box's capabilities because I haven't really scratched the surface of it yet since I've been busy.
