A NEWBIES GUIDE TO SETTING UP A DM500S FOR CARDSHARING

i suppose the box you buy depends on what you need from the box and what your budget is ,if your not bothered about hd and have a very modest budget of about £60 a dm500s will do fine .you can have hd on a budget with an openbox s9 or s10 they are both under £100 .with a bigger budget you could consider perhaps the blade bm7000 or the dm800hd pro ,both of those boxes would push the price up to around the £200 mark ,of course there are more higher end boxes such as the vu+duo (about £400) or the dm8000 (about £1000) .

you wont get any box that is the same as a skybox or sky+box so its a waste of time looking for one . you can attach a a hdd to some boxes which allow you to record (a hdd may not come with a box as standard and if so you will have to buy a hdd in addittion to the box)you can add an epg to dreamboxes depending on the image used ,as far as i know the blade comes with an epg or you can install it with the remote i dont know what type of epg you get with an openbox .

another thing to consider before buying a box is how well supported the box is ,that means does the box get regular updated software/images etc and also how easy it is to get help should you have a problem ,in that respect atleast for me the dreambox is the best supported .

 

hi there guys iam after a bit of advice pls on setting a dm 800hd se i cant fined a guide on what is the best image and ccam to use any advice will be greatful

 

Try sat 4 fun they have all the latest images and guides for that box..Make sure you know what sim your box is most likely sim 201 so a image to suit

 

Anyone know a script for restarting cccam in dm 500 pli image server ?

 

hi lankey mate ,i sent you a pm buddy .it should be in your inbox about now .talk soon mate .

 

where is best place to buy the dreambox? and are they all cloned know or can you get original?? sorry if the question is a bit silly .not really clued up on all this.

 

you can buy original versions of all dreamboxes except the dm500s as they arent made any more ,the cost of originals are a lot higher where for example a dm800 clone costs about £200 an original will come in at about £400 .

what dreambox do you want ? .

 

do the clone ones work? or do they block up afterwards, i want to get one where i can watch hd? may want to start with dm500s??

 

clones work fine mate ,a dm500s is only sd (standard definition )so it wont open hd (hi definition)channels ,you would need a dm800hd .

 

Hello piopat /mojo seen a dreambox 500 HD for sale on a site called dvbsatbox retailing for around $260 + shipping you could probably get a 800HD cheaper closer to home as piopat says the dm500(sd) is a fine box especially if youre new to sat it really is a cheap and cheerful box.

Regards/Jack......

 

thanks guys, seems a very helpful forum...

 

hi guys just got my dm800 hdse up and running got a small problem trying to set my external harddrive up to record tv but it says i need to initialize the harddrive first but when i try to initialized the harddrive it jusy says it has failed to initialized any ideas will be grat full

 

hi lankey , not got answer to your thread , i have asked this question before, but who did you buy your box from uk supplier??
thanks

 

have a dreambox 500s with yhe picture lagging behind the sound sometimes. i have unticked fast zapping but still happens sometimes. new to all this

 

as far as i know disabling fastzapping cures the problem fine and it should be all you need to do.

 

yea i bought it from the uk but it came from china do you no if you have to use a SATA Cable for a Sata Hard Drive Lead for connecting an internal HDD

 

What kind of hard drive is it?I have a 2.5" sata 160gb external hdd,couldn't get it to work i think its a power supply problem!when i connected it the dreambox wouldn't even recognise it ,the led light would keep flashing and do nothing else, ended up using an 8gb pen .

 

seems lots of issues with hard drives. i have a 1tb lacie esata hard drive that has worked for years now 24*7. The issue is never the hard drive. In my case the actual hard drive is an hitachi drive. Hard drives do not fail. The problem occurs with the interface card that is supplied with all external drives. By nature these deives are the old IDE drives that run for ever as hard drives in old computers. So then you have many companies who rebrand these units as their own by designing an interface board that will convert from IDE to USB or ESATA for the more modern folk. These circuit boards, I have found, cause massive problems. Lacie are one of the few who build proper interface circuits

 

my hard drive is a maxator 350gb ive got a lot of stuff i recorded on it from my starview 7 that all works fine but a cant recorded any thing on it with my dreambox

 

Lankey is your maxator a passport hdd or does it have its own power supply? I may be wrong but what if a dreambox cant supply enough power to certain hdd's? and thats why its better to use a pen, or one that has its own power supply or better still mount one?