Dreambox 8000, Thinking of buying it

marcaaron20

I am thinking of buying the new Dreambox 8000 HD Satellite Receiver, I have a Dreambox 500 at the min and love it but want to now get the benefit of my HD TV but the downfall is, the price, should I wait or just bite the bullet and buy it now?? or will it gradually come down in price by the end of the year or so??

if/when i do get it, what is the best connection to get the HD picture and sound?
is it the DVI slot, component or DVI to HDMI cable??

my plan is to have the Dreambox 8000 downstairs and my Dreambox 500 in my bedroom, is this possible,

also, with the 8000 having twin sat tuners am i able to do the following;
my motorised dish/lnb has 2 outputs, a cable is going to the front room and the 2nd is going to my bedroom, and i have a sky minidish,
on the 8000; could i plug the motorised dish/lnb in the 1st tuner and the mini dish in the 2nd tuner then,
on the 500; could i plug the 2nd cable (coming from the motorised dish/lnb) so if i want to watch foreign or sky in my bedroom i can turn to whichever satelite on the 8000 (which wil also give me a choice of satelite to watch manually) on the 500 so my perents can still watch sky downstairs on the 8000 via the minidish on the 2nd tuner

am i able to do this ? (thats the best i could explain it, lol

basicly so i can watch either foreign or sky downstairs automaticly and upstairs, whichever the motorised dish is pointing to

Thanks

B16MCC

Hi , the price of the DM8000 is increased because of the weak £. If you wait 2 years you'll get it for £700 ish. I'm about to buy one myself now that Mark has stock. The 800/8000 comes with a DVI to HDMI cable, thats the best way to do it. You might want to use the auto resolution plugin.

As for your setup it sounds exactly the same as mine. 80cm on motor with 2 outputs. Fixed with 4 outputs. You can do exactly as you've explained no problem at all. If you're wanting to card share then yes its easy to do it between those 2 boxes if you're network is installed in the house. You could go wireless with the 8000 if needed.

marcaaron20

I'm wanting the 8000 that badly that i can't sleep

marcaaron20

I was thinking, I'm going to Florida in August, would it be cheaper if i bought the Dreambox 8000 whilst over there and sneak it back in the UK in my suitcase to bypass extra charges added on through taxes here in the UK (the most tight fisted country in the world)

B16MCC

I doubt you'd find one mate. Plus I doubt the price would be much different.

foden

Think of the price that should help you to sleep.

smiffie

I have a DM800 downstairs operating the dish via a Vbox and a DM500 upstairs on the second LNB output. When I'm upstairs and want to move the dish I just log into the box downstairs on my laptop and move it using the web inteface.