need help, thinking about buying a 7100 - ABA DSS

the3great1 · January 19th, 2009

hey guys, i need your total honesty right now. im thinking about geting a cs7100 but im not sure how the service is on the 7100, are files constantly always updated? how do you like your 7100? if not, for a good price what would you rather have gotten.

thanks guys

reilly2106 · January 19th, 2009

There garbage I have one now and I get the bin. Last n it goes the first I'm selling mine can't deal with it

Foodoop · January 19th, 2009

id have to agree with last post...i have had one for a month now...and mine locks up constantly...not the code but the reciever...if i turn it off for a while it just locks up and i have to do power switch reset in back to get it to respond....id suggest a sonicview 360 elite myself...thats what im getting next. i got one for a friend and its golden so far.

the3great1 · January 20th, 2009

thanks for the honesty; itd def help me. so what do you guys suggest?

**asg** · January 20th, 2009

sonicview or captiveworks both great support

**tomcat01** · January 20th, 2009

i agree with the sonicview i have been up now through 2 small ecm and love it .. keep watching .. the 360 premier is a great little machine and records too .. if you want a dual tuner to record several shows you can try the 360 elite but you will need to run 2 cables from the dish (most of the time ) to run the 2 tuners

**arboristman** · January 20th, 2009

those new 360 sonicviews are so impressive.even if there where people who where never particularly fans of sv in the past,can't help but takes notice of these gems.
and look at the prices on them to boot.
their just sure winners.

you know another that's really grabbing my attention is the new one from captiveworks.
their ultima stb.
finally a pvr unit that will record to the hdd directly to mpeg.no more conversions needed for those who burn allot to dvd.
id like to know if you can set your bitrates etc with that sucker.
i still have some researching to do on it.but its so new,iv not yet read a whole lot of tester results yet.
first one to include a nes emulator too.that's pretty neat.when tv goes down you guys can play some retro games lol.

i don't really know how stable it is or anything yet as a receiver and pvr function tho.
usually takes a few months for new stbs to work out bugs.but from a few things iv read,it seems to be holding it own thus far.

**fossil112** · January 20th, 2009

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Originally Posted by arboristman

...first one to include a nes emulator too.that's pretty neat.when tv goes down you guys can play some retro games lol.

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THE CODERS JUST DATED THEMSELVES

parker374 · January 21st, 2009

As iI told a friend of mine yesterday as an stb the 7100 makes agreat door stop. Used to be great but the last few months have been bad hovever everyone has had problems and I have no experience with any other boxes. I would wait to buy a box until the n3 switch on dn no matter what you get it may end up being a brick. Bev has been down a long time on all the stb's Nfusion is the only one partially up on bev until I see some sucess with bev with any of the stb's I will just keep my money in my pocket and be happy with what I get.