hairybadger
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Hi,
I've been a subscriber to CanalSat for some years. The current receiver that you get as standard is about 4 years old. It always was pretty ropey - slow and prone to hangs - but a recent update has rendered it nearly unusable. The icing on the cake is that it now takes a good 15 minutes to start up, which naturally means I've turned off the "eco" option (turns itself off after x hours of inactivity).
The upshot is that I'd like to get rid of the rented decoder and replace it with something that isn't rubbish. The list of "Canal Ready" decoders doesn't fill me with confidence. I'd like to avoid being messed around by updates that can only be loaded by an official decoder etc. I'd appreciate any advice on buying a suitable decoder - I'd like twin tuner, pvr, inbuilt disk, HD, preferably linux. Any ideas?
I've been a subscriber to CanalSat for some years. The current receiver that you get as standard is about 4 years old. It always was pretty ropey - slow and prone to hangs - but a recent update has rendered it nearly unusable. The icing on the cake is that it now takes a good 15 minutes to start up, which naturally means I've turned off the "eco" option (turns itself off after x hours of inactivity).
The upshot is that I'd like to get rid of the rented decoder and replace it with something that isn't rubbish. The list of "Canal Ready" decoders doesn't fill me with confidence. I'd like to avoid being messed around by updates that can only be loaded by an official decoder etc. I'd appreciate any advice on buying a suitable decoder - I'd like twin tuner, pvr, inbuilt disk, HD, preferably linux. Any ideas?