Azbox Premium + HD

[rrob311]

It is in good condition but includes a pansat 9200, some switches, a vbox 7 and a 10' channel master fiberglass.

[Costactc]

Not bad at all Rob. The azbox premium+, in my opinion, has the best picture quality of all my receivers and opens all 4:2:2 and 4:2:0 feeds which I mainly watch in the Fall with the NFL games.

[rrob311]

Well I committed to buy the receiver with all of the extras for 200$. I am picking it up later this evening so I am sure I will have a few questions about this receiver once I get it setup. Hopefully it lives up to expectations.

[pwrsurge]

You can probably buy a new premium Plus from China for about $225. EB

The AzBox Premium HD Plus has been discontinued for several months now so why risk buying a clone from China with no warranty or support if something goes wrong?

[el bandido]

How about proving that it is a clone. Your words are cheap. AzBox was sold to a China company so how do you know that the new owner of AzBox did not start or did not authorize the production of the Premium Plus in China?

Furthermore, I have not seen anything that officially ties you to the AzBox brand. All I have seen from you is a bunch of mud slung at another AzBox retailer named Rick.

[pwrsurge]

How about proving that it is a clone. Your words are cheap. AzBox was sold to a China company so how do you know that the new owner of AzBox did not start or did not authorize the production of the Premium Plus in China?

Because the hardware design for real AzBox Premium HD Plus units was never actually owned by OpenSat Lda. but rather licensed by Celrun from South Korea. OpenSat had a contract with them at the time to design and manufacture receivers under their AzBox brand. However, the contract between OpenSat and Celrun has not been renewed after the last authentic Premium HD Plus units were manufactured as the AzBox Me and AzBox miniMe models were NOT designed by Celrun.

In this day and age, all electronics typically have a 3 year shelf life. With the AzBox Premium HD Plus starting production back in 2010, it makes perfect sense that it is now discontinued in 2013.

[rrob311]

I noticed a slot with a card in it that says opensat.(underneath where the hard drive goes) I think this is the memory. Is this upgradeable?

[el bandido]

There is nothing on the inside worth upgrading unless you want to run a couple hundred plugins in one of the E2 firmwares.

[rrob311]

I think I will wait to buy an extremely fast box when I jump into E2. This box is a bit slow in my opinion. I finally got the internal Wifi setup and have a buddy getting me a 500gb hard drive tomorrow for recording. I will test the media functions then.

[el bandido]

I would suggest learning E2 with what you have because you will have a terrible time if you try to learn a new receiver and a complex operating system both at the same time. Also, E2 is not for everybody. You may not like it!