Not My Post (Originaly) From Another Forum Made To Look A Little Neater:
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This is by far the coolest receiver I have had the oppertunity of reviewing, and I mean that literally,
as it was on and running constantly for over 10 hours, and still it bearly rose above the ambient room tempreture,
in other words it was cool, realy cool, one would never think it had been running for hours, but more like just a minute or two.
Conclusion:
The only real downside so far, is the inability to store enough channels, as 5,000 is simply not enough for a mulisat receiver,
if they could [in future releases ie, Openbox S10] increase the channel storage number to at least 20,000 and release
some decent software such as a dedicated channel editor, then this would indeed be a multi-sat receiver worth having, even so,
the receivers built in channel editor will do the job okay, and you may well prefer it to the external editors,
as it's quite straight forward to use, and at this point in time, I actually prefer the receivers editor to the external editors.
You will also require a cline, or equivalent, if you wish to take full advantage of the OpenBox S9.
So if your just looking for an HD receiver with C/S & PVR capabilities, plus an MP3 Player and Image viewer,
then the Openbox S9 will be well worth considering.
Okay so it do not offer you all the bells and whistles of certain other receivers, but who realy needs them,
for example how often would you be using the receiver for browsing the web, or watching youtube etc.
What the Openbox S9 will offer you, are decent features, such as recording and playback on an external H/D,
flawless audio and video results, even setting up a cline for C/S could not be made any easier,
and also at this time it runs relatively stable, but it do have a few issues, as stated above, and especially on Astra 2,
where it reboots if you try to access certain channels, such as Sky News for example, but these issues are being addressed,
and once all the issues have been corrected, then the Openbox S9 will truelly represent outstanding value and performance.
Even so, as it stands now, the OpenBox S9 HD Receiver, still represents realy good value for money,
and do not believe that because of it's budget price, you will receive inadequate output or performance,
as this is definatly not the case, as the video and audio output will be as good if not better than receivers costing 3 times the price
of the OpenBox S9, but the most apparent feature, is the cool running of the receiver,
as the running tempreture of the S9 receiver is so cool that it's almost unbelievable.
