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cwiggles

I just logged into the forum using a https: connection with no issues, I am using MS Edge though, so perhaps the issue you see is Firefox related?

Regards,

Craig

cwiggles

Removed content as PRL had already covered most of what I said. I should learn to read all the posts before posting.

cwiggles

Hi, I'll admit I am not a BW U4 expert by any means, but it may be worth looking at the USB WIFI dongles/adaptors. I would check to see if 1. They the same brand and model as each other 2. The they are running the same firmware, assuming they can be updated and there is a way of determining the f/w ...

cwiggles

Hi Wozza,

no worries. I only pointed this out because you mentioned the $95k warranty.

Slightly envious of your U4 and the 4k TV purchase

Hope it all works well.

Craig

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Hi Wozza, not trying to rain on your purchase, but I always like to go over the warranty of products just to see if there are any gotcha's. I've just had a look at warranty for this item and there are one or two things you should be aware of. Now I am no expert, just an armchair sceptic when it come...

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Hi all, well one aspect of using an SSD in a PVR which I do not think has been covered yet is if the underlying OS the PVR uses implements TRIM or not. Before TRIM support was added, the write speeds of SSDs dropped quite significantly as the disk usage increased. When the SSD was almost full it was...

cwiggles

Thanks Ian.

Craig

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Hi all, given the issues around shingle based hdd's, and in doing some more reading on them, I came across this paper which some of you may find interesting. It seems to cover some things Seagate do differently or have expanded on from the original SMR design specs, or so the author(s) allude to. An...

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I think you'll find the FireCuda's are SMR drives - https://www.anandtech.com/show/10760/seagate-launches-firecuda-sshds-up-to-2-tb-smr-8-gb-of-nand The 2TB BarraCude is also SMR - https://www.anandtech.com/show/10757/seagate-introduces-barracuda-25-mobile-hard-drives-with-up-to-5-tb-capacity Thank...

cwiggles

prl wrote: ↑
Sun Nov 12, 2017 21:53

cwiggles wrote: ↑
Sun Nov 12, 2017 21:40
... As far as I can determine, none of these drives use SMR and are PMR based drives ...

SMR and PMR aren't mutually exclusive. The Seagate SMR drives also use PMR.

Thanks for the correction PRL.

Craig

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This is the main downside to me getting a U4 is the 2.5" form factor, as I'd like to get a 2Tb drive when I order a U4 BB , but can't seem to find vendor that sells them at the moment at a reasonable price. My regular supplied MSY only sell the Seagate drives, as what's been said in the last s...

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Why does shingled matter? Well I can only comment based on personal experience. Up front I will say I have never been a fan of Seagate drives. Out of all the drive vendors I've used over the past 30 odd years in IT, I always had the most failures with Seagate, not only in the consumer range, but al...

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Hi, IanSav. I'm unable to test this. The required file doesn't seem to be available on your feeds server: root@beyonwizt4:/etc/opkg# wget https://iansav.bitbucket.io/feeds/Packages.gz Connecting to iansav.bitbucket.io (104.192.143.11:443) wget: server returned error: HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found root@bey...

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Hi, I was wondering if the Beyonwiz testers of the new OverlayHD want to give me their opinion if the new version is ready for release? There is still a little more work to be done for OpenViX but they are also almost ready for a release. Out of interest the last issue on the current list is to inc...

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IanSav wrote:On a good news front, the Australian Picon update has now made its way to International Engima2 feeds!

Oooh. I wonder if that means it will make it to OpenPli on my DUO2

Sorry, had to ask!

Craig

cwiggles

In upgrading to Yosemite (different from a new installation, perhaps), FileVault stayed off. Not 100% sure, I would have to speak to the various devops who did this. All I can say is they did upgrade from the previous release of OSX and their disks ended up being encrypted. Perhaps they all opted t...

cwiggles

Hi Prl,

Ok, it's not an Apple thread , but it's one of the few links about this that doesn't try and spam your screen with adds and other nonsense.

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2 ... on-mac-osx

Regards,

Craig

cwiggles

... 1. When you say it's formatted for Apple, do you mean it's AFS/HFS or ext3 or ext4 format? ... OS X has no native ext2/3/4 support, so I'd assume HFS+. 5. What version of OSX are you using. If it's Yosemite then by default, OSX will encrypt the hard drive with FileVault. ... Are you sure about ...

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Hi, I'm not sure what the T3 does when it sees a filesystem it is not familiar with. I would be surprised if it automatically reformats it, but you never know. I think someone like Prl or PeterU are probably the best to answer such questions seeing they seem to be the code maintainers for the T3. I ...

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you would be hard pressed to see any significant difference between the OE Alliance E2 image and the T3's image. The menu's are arranged differently, but apart from that, from a end users perspective there is little to distinguish a T3 running their f/w and the VU+ DUO2 running OpenATV or VU+'s own...

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Please dont misunderstand my intentions, I respect and applaud your attempt to bring Enigma2 to a more mainstream market, but I do also believe it to be very naive if you think you can give a Enigma2 based receiver to any just one from a child to a O.AP and expect them to be able to fully operate i...

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Hi PeterU, just getting back to one of the questions from my original post. Are bug fixes/changes to the T3 OE codebase being pushed back to the OE repositories or is the T3 different enough from other E2 based PVRs that the fixes/updates are deemed to T3 specific? As mentioned in my original post, ...

cwiggles

+1 to contact Warkus. Good service, good prices, and fast repair times.

Craig

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root@vuduo2:/proc/stb/video# cat videomode_choices
pal ntsc 480i 576i 1080i 1080p 720p 480p 1080i50 1080p24 1080p25 1080p30 1080p50 1080p60 720p24 720p50 576p

Craig

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These are the supported video modes root@vuduo2:/proc/stb/video# cat videomode_50hz_choices pal ntsc 480i 576i 480p 576p 720p50 720p 1080i 1080i50 1080p50 1080p root@vuduo2:/proc/stb/video# cat videomode_60hz_choices pal ntsc 480i 576i 480p 576p 720p50 720p 1080i 1080i50 1080p50 1080p root@vuduo2:/p...

cwiggles

Oh absolutely agree, I love my T3 for sure, but with 3 times the CPU horsepower, it would probably have a usable web browser and HBBTV, Gigabit Ethernet would be a big bonus for getting recordings on and off it, and 1080p PiP is quite appealing too. Does it have an expanded range of output modes in...

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Well I wouldn't say it's a beast next to the T3, the T3 is still a good PVR. Perhaps ask BW if the demux limit can be increased? To be honest, 9 demux's is an overkill in Oz, might be more of an issue in Europe where this box is sold mostly.

Craig

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I'd definitely be curious about the additional tuner capability. Not so much for the extra tuner, but I had previously experimented with a PlayTV (dual tuner) which resulted in crashing the T3. the PlayTV had better reception performance than the T3's own USB tuner, and I was hoping for a win. Othe...

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Hi Chuckles, it also as WIFI as well, though only 2.4Ghz range. Despite having no external antenna's for the WIFI it actually works better than the WIFI on the DP-S1! because I rely on WIFI for network I haven't actually done a speed test on the LAN port yet, but will give it a shot tonight to see h...

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Hi all, Well the time had come to replace the old trust DP-S1 after many years of faithful and reliable service. It’s not strictly retired, will be kept in reserve in case it’s replacement has issues. So after much looking around and playing with a T3 at a friends place, I decided I’ll take a chance...

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Hi,

although not owning one, a friend of mine has one and has been fiddling round a bit. He's told me it's mostly xml, so if you know xml then you should be good to go, though he did indicate some aspects aren't changeable, but I don't recall what they were.

Craig

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I've assumed there EOL as well. It just would have been nice for BW to say so that's all.

Craig

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Hi all,

although I am 99% what the answer to this question is ( I assume all attention is squarely on the T3 now) , I have not seen any official announcement from BW on the status of the DP series. So have the DP series been officially retired with no further development/bug fixes?

Craig

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Hi Paul, Apart from the cabling issue with a large batch of P2s a couple of years ago. The cabling was incorrectly routed over the power supply causing heat damage, failure - and, potentially a fire risk!! http://www.beyonwiz.com.au/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=7370 My observations were purely base...

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Shouldn't the real question here be " why " should a end user even have to do this on a new device? What's happened to QA? Sort of glad I am hanging back from ordering one now. Seems to me the T3 was really released prematurely. I appreciate all the hard work being done by various people t...

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Well I'll just throw in a completely wild suggestion of which I have no information to back it up, but perhaps BW are going to operate their own IceTV like service? If Ice are getting into the PVR market, why not BW? The fact ICET won their court case against the commercial station cabal, the preced...

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Well there is always the possibility they may have licensed a design from someone else and then modified it somewhat. Just like Apple licensed the CPU from ARM for their iOS devices and then modified them to suite their own design/spec requirements. It's quite common in this sector these days. Anywa...

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Hi Craig, Just to clarify is it the same "shop" link at the top of this page just behaving different when you are logged in or out? I tried but I go to Beyonwiz shop each time.. Hi Wiz HQ. Ok, found the issue, sorry, it's at my end. My favourite for the site was using an old URL, namely h...

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Hi all, been tempted to take the plunge on a T3. It's been interesting to read the initial feedback of the unit. I do have some concerns about UI consistency and ease of use having been spoilt by the ol S1. So to get to the crux of this message, I clicked on the SHOP link which took me to the dealsp...

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Sorry, I wasn't trying to bash the new unit because of the perceived lack of 1080p, just thought it a bit of a lost opportunity since it's been avail for some number of years now, and it is one of the check box options reviewers in tech mags will pick up on, esp if the competition supports it. Howev...

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Here is the data sheet for the BCM7405 http://www.avs.org.cn/fruits/Doc/%E5%8D%9A%E9%80%9AAVS%E8%8A%AF%E7%89%877405-PB04-R.pdf • HD/SD AVS Jizhun Profile Levels 2.0, 4.0, and 6.0 (720p and 1080i for HDTV) So I gather from this (if the posted specs are correct) then it doesn't support 1080p?. Went t...

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Out of interest, has anyone tried a 3d stream yet? I admit it's not as if we a 3d channel yet, but if someone kept a recording from one of the tests the commercial channels did last year it would be interesting to see if it played them ok. As I recall not all previous BW models could play them back ...

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lol at six tuners. I can hardly find the time to watch what I record on the ol dual tuner S1, let alone a PVR with six tuners. Plus, there is so much dross on FTA these days I very rarely need the dual tuners now, let alone six. If it's for cable then that's a different scenario. Of course I realise...

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I wonder if it is 4 concurrent HD recordings or only SD, or what the mix is for 4 concurrent recordings. Will be interesrting to see how it shapes up.

Craig

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Have been I touch with Walkus and will try another PSU refurbishment. If it gets me another 2-4yrs of use I can't really complain, it would make it one of the longest serving electrical goods in my house!

Craig

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Well it looks like my ol DP-S1 is slowly dying. It's had a PSU upgrade courtesy of Walkus but now it is just becoming unrepsonsive (via remote) and is begining to miss timers. Also alot of what I record is corrupted, so I end up with 5 min of good recording at the start and suddenly it jumps to the ...

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http://www.gobizkorea.com/catalog/about.jsp?blogId=beyonwiz&pageNo=1&pageVol=12&listStyle=L Only 10 people on staff according to this site... I always thought they were a small design company so this doesn't surprise me, however If it said 1 employee then I would be a little bit worried...

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Just came accross references to a Wizzot Pro on akibaba.com http://www.alibaba.com/product-free/124624496/WizOTT_Pro.html Not sure if these are real or what but I thought some of you may be interested. Perhaps there is still some life in Beyonwiz afterall? Mind you I do not know how old this page is...

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Another 7 quiet months have passed, no new firmware, no new models. I'm now struggling to convince family and friends to stick with Beyonwiz (while new Toppies seem to pop out every now and then). I still love the units I have, but the wishlist of things to be fixed/improved let alone added hasn't ...

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