looking forward to any feedback on the brand
The Duo was on my potential lust-list.
The Trio just adds the DivX capability.
So, anything related to hard drive recording, timers, play-while-recording, record while on (as opposed to while off) and all that, are where I want to go.
And, how the video can be pulled off the hard drive is a big interest.
I occasionally make DVDs from the hard drive in my receiver, so getting my hands on the mpeg is vital.
Any translation utilities needed on your computer would be annoying.
Hopefully the drive has just mpeg with multiplexed video and audio, and nothing else.
Also, the whole idea of playing DivX seems silly to me.
They expect you to load the drive with DivX, then plug it into the Trio for playing?
I'm pretty sure the Trio won't encode mpeg to divx, but correct me if I'm wrong.
Some of these boxes don't do 22khz + diseqc switches + motors all that well, so give it a good bashing.
Needless to say, all audio should be available on the coax/optical output regardless if you are on an AC3 channel or not.
And if AC3 channels also happen to be decoded to stereo and fed out the regular red/white RCA jacks, that's be a real plus for many users.
I know you gotta walk before you run, so the hard drive testing may come later in your test suite.
That's fine.
Pretty much any observations are welcome.
Do your review in layers, if you like.
Concentrate on one area in your first post, then another area,, and so on... (?)
Thanks - and have a good time with the new toy!