Relook-3000 now here

[theslydog]

site sponser now has the Relook-3000 price up.

$748 with a 80gig hd.

Thats a pretty fair price considering it is just released.

I have heard that they go pretty good.

Gotta work out what I can sell to pay for one :-(

http://www.adigitalife.com/products/org_100.jpg

[Ocean]

what is your liver like ? Coupla hundred bucks for it and you'll have the front panel. Ho Ho Ho

[VK4BKP]

I remember my first VCR was the same price back in 1984. I had a lot of help from my parents to get it though.

[star trooper]

Does this come with IEEE 1394 firewire to download recorded files to your computer?

[vetrun]

It uses USB to connect to the computer.

vetrun

[star trooper]

Why they're not putting a firewire in it? If it is using USB1 instead of USB2, the transfer rate is going to be slow. Anyone tried this before. I was just about to order a eMtec 320 for Christmas until I saw this. Got to think again now.

[bassett]

IF the thing had a SCSI port, there might be some point to it, as it is connecting via USB, It is going to be a bit slow..

[search]

Someone should open one of these boxes and check out if they could be expanded i.e PCI Firewire interface card

Didn't Slydog review the decoder sometime ago? Surely you could open the box and check it out. If it runs on Linux and has an HDD it's got to have a recognisable Motherboard.

Just a thought maybe.

[vetrun]

I would doubt that its a recognisable motherboard. It would be a custom one that is designed just for satellite decoders and I would seriously doubt it had connections for other interfaces (I could be wrong). I prefer Ethernet connections for anything that talks to the PC but I don't see why USB wouldn't do a good job as nearly all PC's have USB ports and not as many people have Network Cards and even fewer use Firewire.

vetrun

[Yalickit]

usb 1, usb 2, firewire??? all the same when it comes down to what you want to do and that's just transfer a file.

I have given up transfering files from STB to Pc. I reakon PVR's are just for short term. Unless your a dvd freak, a pvr in my opinion is just short term as transfering files then converting then burning take more time than what a $20 dvd will cost me

Notice there's forum for these things aswell www.dgstation.com.au

[theslydog]

Thanks for the link to the forum Yalickit.

This is the first box that I have seen for a while that actually looks like it got potential.

After playing with a friends Dream the tuner was not sensitive enuf for me.

Hope this one has good tuners.

There are pics on the forum from inside. I pinched one for here.

tsd
http://www.dgstation.com.au/forums/files/relook_nohd.jpg

[Yalickit]

I see it has it's own power supply for the HD, the dream uses the IDE cable for power which i reakon has problems in it own.

It would be good to see what the tuners are like, slydog, let us know ,,,,,when you've sold the kidney:D :D :D

[star trooper]

Yeah sly, tell us if the tuner is as good as the ID Digital. How about putting a DVD writer/reader in it???????

[bassett]

Nice solid looking power supply,,,But I really can,t see myself doing "Home surgery" with a soldering iron..

On the subject of PVR's, I think I'll side with Yalickit, they are a bit of a gimmick, and for that sort of money, You can nearly get a DVD recorder.. Or there are any amount of sites on the net,
to download the latest Movies.

But if your intrest is a Twin Tuner machine, there a reasonable price compaired to the Emtech. Providing you can find something to watch

[Yalickit]

don't get me wrong basset, a PVR is the best invention around. Kills any VCR, and makes accessing those recorded flicks easy to get to. No messy walls of millions of tapes. It's the transfering files, converting them to the correct format, then burning them that takes up so much time, that I'd rather be finishing off my latest home brew.:D or watching tv.

[star trooper]

What format that the PVR recorded in the hard drive. Is it the VOB format like the DVD? It takes me hours to rip a DVD and convert them into AVI files and more hours to encode them to MPEG files to be burned into SVCD.

[search]

Do you know VOB files are in fact MPEG files?

[theslydog]

I posted this at the bottom of the Dream thread but thought I would also place it here.

tsd
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Just got this from a Relook-3000 user.

Deeks wrote
slydog, as for blind scan it will blind scan by symbol rate only. I.e you input the symbol rates and it will scan these and give you the transponder details. Sort of a semi-blind search. I do believe the factory is looking at more development for complete blind scan. It would be nice
Looking good for the Relook-3000 to do a blind search on either tuner. :D :D :D

Blind search, twin tuner and HD - sounds pretty good :D :D :D

[theslydog]

search

you can download saved files in a pc friendly format :D