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1. The primary tuner hardware in a V2 VS9000 supports DVB-S2. The current firmware does not. Viewsat does not respond to my e-mails asking when it will. I e-mail weekly.
2. The optical audio output cuts out constantly. Changing the channel will fix this. This does not affect PVR functions - audio will be fine when playing back the recording. The box decodes AC3 audio and will pass it to the analog L/R outputs and are unaffected by this problem.
3. The second tuner in a V2 VS9000 is DVB-S only, not DVB-S2, and does nothing with currently available firmware.
4. A couple of updates ago, turning the receiver off doesn't turn the internal fan off, or put a monitor into sleep mode.
5. Broken software blindscan. You'll need a good blindscanning box (IE: Coolsat 5000.)
6. With a turbo 8PSK card add-in card you can tune legal unencrypted channels. They're out there. You need to find them yourself. Like any other FTA channel, watch it while it lasts because it might be gone tomorrow. With the 8psk card the primary tuner is only used to send diseqc commands. The 8psk becomes the primary tuner. The 8psk card will not lock all transponders and will need to be turned off to receive certain ones. KUIL on AMC4 is an example I know of. This is a pain.
7. PVR functions well enough to record and playback. But the live TV stuff is still somewhat buggy (IE: pausing stops the video, but does not pause audio.) With the second tuner non-functional at this time, you must watch what you're recording. (Remember VCRs?) No commercial skip. No pausing while recording in DVR mode. You cannot currently record one show and watch another due to the non-functional second tuner. Also, if you have no guide information, you can't schedule a recording at all. So if you want to record Dragnet, you're going to sit there like you did with your VCR to press record, and stop when it's done. And no smart comments like "My VCR would work on a schedule...." I'm talking OLD ones.

cracklincrotch said:

Should have bought a CS8100 or Pansat9200, spending what I did.

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Corrado said:

I regret buying the Pansat 9200. At the time of purchase the PVR was still a future feature and mine needs the board modification. Which came about later. The second strike against it is, it needs the S2 addon card.

I wish I bought the CS8100. It would have done what I wanted out of the box.

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Corrado said:

I regret buying the Pansat 9200. At the time of purchase the PVR was still a future feature and mine needs the board modification. Which came about later. The second strike against it is, it needs the S2 addon card.

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