IPTV with dvbs2 and dvb and etc.

[ussexplroer]

Okay so I get IPTV but what about these boxes that show satellite and iptv mfg for USA. Is there something special about it? I see you can get it via satellite or internet. The example I found about the satelite is using a pc card. The rest of the stuff is the internet. I see some cable companies use it.

The box I was looking at was the ibox x7. I found this while looking for the x2 premium hd.

So fill me in.

Thanks,

Josh

 

[ussexplroer]

I also noticed the high end azbox hd etc supported it too. This is ofcourse my dream box. Since it supports almost everything. But at least on ebay when I checked it out. It says supports iptv.

thanks,

Josh

 

[Jim S.]

It depends on what you mean by IPTV. NO consumer satellite receiver supports IPTV as broadcast on satellite or fiber! For satellite IPTV, you'll need a PC card, and good luck figuring out how to decode it. (There's a section at Rick's forum if you really want to get into it.) For fiber-to-the-home IPTV, you'll need to subscribe, and deal with whatever receiver they give you.

When they say IPTV on a satellite box, they mean streaming over the public Internet, such as you could view on your computer with your video player of choice. NOT necessarily web video, mind you -- the web browsers on some of these boxes don't support Flash video, as far as I know. If you're lucky, they'll have an app for Youtube. The sort of streaming video you can get is what you get if you click on a link and it opens up Windows Media Player, or VLC, or whatever. And most of them won't actually play Windows Media formats, just public-domain formats. (I've encountered at least one box that will play Windows Video, but not Windows Audio. Really helpful, that!)

 

[Anole]

I searched for the ibox x7, and all I saw were Chinese dealers/wholesalers selling into the hacker market.
It wasn't an exhaustive search.

Support on such receivers is often poor, with a new unit marketed every six months, instead of fixing the original box.

We do have an AZbox-specific forum here.
I would recommend reading up on the problems & successes users have reported.
I'm not up to date, but I think some models have been discontinued.
Were I to consider one, I'd focus on the miniME being supported out of Canada, with North American specific mods, only.

Frankly, I find bundling all those features in a single box just means you have to compromise.
For several years, I've had a Western Digital TV Live Plus.
It has newer cousins, But just got a firmware update last month!
Recently, I got the best S2 receiver I could find.
The total cost of both was less, and each is optimized for one purpose.
If a significantly better media player or FTA receiver come along, I just replace one component!
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