Review of the Optibox Raptor FTA Receiver

EB, in the Raptor's details it says it supports DVB-T2 and DVB-C, can you explain what these formats relate to. Thanks

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T Is for the terrestrial tuner option and the C is for the cable tuner option.
The terrestrial tuner does not work because it does not support ATSC. A working terrestrial tuner has bee requested.
The cable tuner has not been tested yet by me.
 
There needs to be some clarification as to what the Raptor can and cannot do on recording programs.
Note that I have a 1 TB esata hard drive installed in the Raptor.

*The Raptor can record three high frame rate hd channels at one time.

*You may watch something that has been previously recorded while recording something else.

*You may record on both tuners at the same time. My tuners are connected to two separate dish systems.

In general, all of the channels that are being recorded need to be on the same transponder. The ONE exception to this is recording on both tuners at the same time. When recording on both tuners at the same time, all recorded channels have to be on the same transponder of tuner 1 or tuner 2.

I have not tried to record more than three channels at once.

Some people have been confused about what can and cannot be done so I hope this clears it up. EB
 
So how does the overall tuner sensitivity compare to other STB? I have a Coolsat 8000 that inches out my Openbox on weaker signals but I would like something better. I have some receivers that won't even find a weaker tranponder while another will scan it in with a signal that cuts in and out and another box that will hold it pretty stable with only minor dropouts.
 
Overall, the Raptor has very good sensitivity. Sometimes it will miss a channel that another receiver will find, but you will have a hard time finding a receiver that does not miss anything that is in the same price range as the Raptor. I have noticed that the Raptor has a hard time locking some transponders that have a symbol rate below 1500, so the receiver is not perfect.
 
Do you think the tuner is more stable than the Openbox? Also with the multimedia portion of it would I be able to plug Hulu or something into it or is it not compatible?
 
I think the Raptor tuner is better than Openbox Period. I do not know what Hulu is or if it will work. more information on it is needed.
 
Hulu is like an on demand website online that allows you to watch streaming shows kind of like Netflix I guess. I would be interested in being able to stream online channels with this if possible.
 
Since the Raptor does not have video inputs, you can utilize media center software on your PC to play your collection of old movies or tunes. One such media center is XBMC which connects to the Raptor using the ethenet port and DLNA. It works very well.

Since I don't have Hulu, I found that XBMC on my PC has a plug in available to access Hulu. I will experiment and see what kind of results I get.

Attached are three Jpgs explaining the integration of XBMC and Hulu.
 
EB- When you say the wireless adapter worked, did the Raptor recognize the usb adapter when you plugged it in or did you need to set-it up somewhere? I bought a Cisco usb wifi and after checking on the web I see it does not have a supported chipset. So I don't don't know if that is the issue or I just don't understand the manual on page 52 where it says to use the * key (check mark key?). Not sure what that means.
Thanks for all the help. So far I am really liking this box. (Just gotta be smarter than the material you work with-NOT :N_NO: )
Bob

el bandido said:
The wireless adapter worked without a problem.
Also added today was a Western Digital 1 terabyte internal hard drive. This hard drive was about $150.00 at a Best Buy Store. I could have gotten it for less money on Ebay but I wanted to make sure I got a good one. A WD 320GB HD had been installed earlier. This hard drive had some issues and it was causing the receiver's menus to freeze, and I also suspect it was the cause of at least one hard boot. A hard boot puts the receiver in PAL. Since I did not want to relive these experiences, I bought a new hard drive from Best Buy.
The Hard Drive Speed Test suggests I got what I paid for. EB
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The wireless adapter that I have has an Amiko name on it. I got it when I purchased an Amiko receiver.
Not all wireless adapters will work, and there is supposed to be a master list of the ones that so work.

The receiver will recognize a Valid wireless adapter when you install it. There should be nothing special that you should have to do except go to the correct menu screen, do an AP search, then select the AP you want to connect to.

Attached are a couple of pictures showing the wireless menu and available AP points after doing an AP scan.
 
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