Eurovox Max 2008 (V)

(Digital set top boxes (DVB-C))

"My friend and I bought one of these boxes at the same time. Mine had a weird fault with the controller and I got it exchanged. My friends became defective and lost all the channels, he got an exchange for a starview (better box- more stable).

My replacement box is riddled with problems.

1. Epg menu doesn’t respond quickly/ freezes/ box locks up. Sometimes I have to wait for a while for the tv menu to appear, other times I have to switch the box off
2. controller commands can freeze box up. This happens rarely but is annoying as it might fix itself or I have to switch the box off
3. Channel update doesn’t update only the channels you want, it also adds the channels you deleted again and then autosorts your manually organised channel listings - which is crap.
4. fast install works fine, but the auto sort doesn’t place all channels in correct listings.
5. Some found channels lack titles, so require manual editing to rename them- which will be lost again once you have to update the channels/ factory reset the box
6. Manually organising your favourites, besides being a waste of time- because every time you have to reset/update all your efforts will be lost (which I have to do once a month). When you manually organise , you cant do more than 20-40 channels without exiting and saving and then going back in to continue, else the box will freeze and will reset with a pop. This will result in loosing all your efforts.
7. Storing an imagine of your channel listing is another waste of time as that appears to store the bug/ current encryption code. So if you need to update your channels or the encryption code has changed the channel listing imagine stored on your pc wont work.
8. Channels stop working. Currently this happens with fly movies and disco real channels. The channels get the following messages’ please insert smart card’ ‘please wait, code being updated’. If your box is like mine, you can do a factory reset, switch it off n on, unplug it, do an fancy dance, sing it a love song and all it will do is flicker the same messages up….

So For £100, for a box that has a better menu that a starview….. well idea rather wished I had exchanged for a starview like my friend as having to update my box every few weeks, isn’t good.
I think the firmware needs redoing as its just too unstable, quite glitchy.

IM quite unhappy with this box"

Review date: 16 Oct, 2009