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    Default Ways to spot a clone box

    This is just from my personal experiences but hope it might help others...

    I've had two F5s boxes in the past and the first one, upon recieving it and scanning the square block pattern on the side of the box with my android phone (using QR droid) it took me to the hddvbsw website. This is a clone website with the latest software version available dated as 20131015. This version of f/w does not support the 7 day EPG as i updated my first clone box with it and there was no xmltv option to choose from.

    Before i sent my original clone box back i bought another one from a different seller who also assured my that they were genuine boxes etc etc...This one turned out to be true though. Straight away i noticed that the boot screen showed the slybox website url in the bottom right hand corner...The barcode scanner took me to the slyboxcc website...but the most noticable difference i saw was the menu setup in that all of the various menu options were set out in a line along the bottom of the screen i.e. you just scroll left or right, whereas the clone box had the menu options laid out in a grid type manner in 3 rows of 3. To be honest i thought the clone menu set up looked better :-/

    Obviously the firmware updates on the .cc website are more recent and i personally have had no issues other than a few channels missing their epg data, but I'll save that for another thread.

    Overall i think the F5s is a cracking little box and i'll continue to use it as my primary box, which means that my Alien 8900 can sleep for a little while longer. Seems a bit strange going from a linux box backwards so to speak as most folk go the other way, but if it's just TV you want to watch you can't go far wrong with the F5s.

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    Default Re: Ways to spot a clone box

    I paid £50 for mine last year we dont watch a lot of tv so the crap epg dont bother me. Think of the days before freeview we didnt even have an epg. Hope everything lasts a little longer as the kids use it

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    Default Re: Ways to spot a clone box

    thanks for the tip. will check my new box when it arrives

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    Default Re: Ways to spot a clone box

    that's a good informative post thank you.
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    Default Re: Ways to spot a clone box

    ps, the 7 day epg is still crap
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    Default Re: Ways to spot a clone box

    Quote Originally Posted by Detector View Post
    ps, the 7 day epg is still crap
    LOL it's not the greatest considering its only a 5 day EPG in reality with missing channels etc, better than now and next imo but it does help the kids setup whatever they want to record etc..

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    Default Re: Ways to spot a clone box

    Not tried the EPG yet, I presume Recording is still done via the timer?

    I recorded on Saturday from 1am until 4am and it was fine. Is there a limit on time of recording or can I select the timer to go for longer?

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    Default Re: Ways to spot a clone box

    I guess you can record for as long as you want as it all depends on the amount of space you have on you USB device etc

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