Rick88 - 1 day ago »
Can you give details of Octagon Enigma 2 combi PVR?
Many thanks.
It's an Octagon SF8008 twin tuner PVR - mine has one terrestrial tuner and one satellite tuner.
Very neat and compact - the only real downside is there is no room for an internal HDD but I have plugged in a 1Tb portable USB drive and it works a treat.
Quite a steep learning curve, especially if you switch the menus to "expert" mode, but there are several different OS you can use - I use OpenTV - and these can be flashed direct to the unit from the internet whilst in your armchair with the remote! You can store several OS images on the unit so you can try a couple of different ones as you please - then there are different "skins" for each OS which changes the look and feel of the OS.
Did I say it was quite a steep learning curve?
It is exceptionally fast both changing channels and within the menus - the picture quality puts the Aura to shame.
The only thing that sometimes gets things in a twist at the moment is the subtitles function is not always in sync with the picture.
Obviously there are loads of alternatives available in various price ranges but I was determined to just try a cheapy as a backup device - this one was about £80 from memory and I had a spare 1Tb USB HDD to use with it.
Gets updated every few days or at least weekly it seems and you can backup your settings or a complete image of the OS (not recordings) beforehand so if the updates throw a wobbly you can revert to your previous settings or image.
Single button press to get to schedule or recordings - single press of red button to delete BUT that goes straight into a trash folder for a programmable time before it is actually erased - you can restore it if needed. Oh, and you can make your own folders in the "movie list". All as Humax SHOULD have done!
Oh, there are a multitude of plug-ins you can add, from a menu, for all manner of add on facilities - some are extremely useful! Many are more useful than the pile of **** that Humax says you can get on their Android Aura and then you find it is very limited and lots of my favourites are either not available or don't work.
Phew, just some quick thoughts, down to you to do some research now!
Hope it helps.
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