Diamond 8000p Receiver

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Hi Guys!
Does anyone own a Diamond 8000p receiver? I won one on Ebay for $20. Just curious about how good receiver it is...

 

[Mr Tony]

here are the specs (or should I say what it claims )

Diamond 8000P

Main Features

* USB 2.0 Host Support(MP3 Player & JPEG
Viewer)

* MPEG-II digital & fully DVB compliant
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* On-Screen Display (OSD) with a 256-colors
color resolution
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* DiSEqC control version 1.0, 1.1, 1.2 and
USALS compatible
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* 16 renameable favorite channel groups
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* Powerful channel control by Favorites,
Lock, Skip, Move and Delete
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* Channel sorting by Alphabet, Transponder
and Conditional Access System (CAS)
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* Multilingual language OSD & menu :
English, Chinese, Italian, Turkish, Arabic, Parsi, German,
French, Russian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch.
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* Extended Electronic Program Guide (EPG)
and program reservation through EPG
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* Last channel memory function
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* Total of 10,000 programmable channels
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* Advanced 'Channel List' menu
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* Multi-satellite search
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* Games with stereo sound
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* Software & channels database upgrades via
RS-232C: PC to STB/STB to STB
* Parental Lock/ Installation Lock/Receiver
Lock/Channel Lock/Lock Channel Confirm.
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* Digital audio output [S/PDIF]
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* Multi-picture display
* Zoom capabilities
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* Advanced Blind Search Function
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* Color Adjustment Function
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* USB Interface
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* Component output(Y/Pb/Pr)
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* S-VHS video output.
* Optical & Coaxial Output for Digital
Audio

* Universal Remote Control

 

[GreatFTA]

Thanks Iceberg!
I saw all that on descriptions of this product. I am hoping someone who owns one would give me personal insight of it.

 

[1captain]

I got a Diamond-9000 slaved off a 10-footer, don't know if their the same animal or not, but I like my 9000, it got a great tunner in it for week signals. an the Diamond people have a great channel editor also. is the Diamond 8000 with out the PVR function, like the Coolsat 8000 & 8100 models?

 

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I got a Diamond-9000 slaved off a 10-footer, don't know if their the same animal or not, but I like my 9000, it got a great tunner in it for week signals. an the Diamond people have a great channel editor also. is the Diamond 8000 with out the PVR function, like the Coolsat 8000 & 8100 models?

The model you have is capable to get the S2 signals, the Diamond 8000p doesn't.
There was no mention of a PVR in the list of features Iceberg shared in this post. I was looking at the model you have several months ago before I won the Coolsat 8000 at Ebay. The only thing I never understood about the Coolsat 8000 is the PVR feature. It has no USB slot on it but yet the Coolsat folks told me it can be done on their Coolsat models.
Iceberg please correct me if I am wrong about the Coolsat 8000. If I am right and your Coolsat 8000 is set up for PVR, please tell me how you did it.

 

[Mr Tony]

The Coolsat 8000 does not have a PVR nor is capable

The 8100 is

 

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Thanks Iceberg!