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I did not know that. Ours is a HDD 320GB bought in 2011.

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Apart from the less than intuitive menu, I can’t complain about the performance of my 4K Freesat box.

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But they manufacture for Freesat and Manhattan? You could get a Manhattan with a 500gb hard drive on board

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Arris don’t manufacture for Manhattan. They do do the new Freesat box.

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In some respects it’s pretty awful, but that has a lot to do with the EPG, which Arris didn’t design or write. If I hadn’t retired in 2018, I would have been part of the team at Arris (the old Pace} who did the hardware and driver level software for this box. I would have been livid that it was compromised by an awful middleware done in Sweden and a terrible EPG contracted by Freesat. They have recently (Sep 16th) fixed some of the worst bugs in the EPG with a software update. But, up to 20s to delete a program ? It should be a lot less than a second.

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My Manhattan is marked Arris hence why I mentioned it

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Which box model ? Is it a newer post 2018 one or an old one. Manhattan only do Freesat non recordable boxes now.

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I have a 1.6M dish with all fittings for a 50mm clamp.

You are welcome to have it for free, but you collect from Limoux.

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It’s in France so can’t check now.

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Ah, that would explain why it sat there with a “Setting up your box” message for 30 seconds the other day.

Deleting a recorded series was painful last time I did it, hopefully it’s better now.

Your comment reminded of a Steve Jobs rant about how long the disk tray on his Sony Blu-Ray player took to open. Something along the lines of “Hatches on submarines open faster than this junk
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Nope.

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Wow, that’s a big dish. I’m thinking of getting a larger dish myself soon, so I could give you a contribution for it if it’s suitable. 1.6m may be a bit big for the space I have though. I know Limoux as I live North of Carcassonne and used to live in MontrĂ©al.
What’s the make / model so I can look it up ?

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I do not know the make or model. I had it shipped up from Spain ten years ago.

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Steve Jobs was famously biased against BluRay because he considered Sony’s licensing fees to include BluRay drives and software in computers to be exorbitant:

Blu-ray is just a bag of hurt. It’s great to watch the movies, but the licensing of the tech is so complex, we’re waiting till things settle down and Blu-ray takes off in the marketplace

Hence why Macs never included BluRay burner drives as standard, and Apple software didn’t support them.

Fortunately it was possible to retrofit some Macs with PC-type BluRay drives e.g. the old Mac Pro towers - my Mac Pro has two of them, replacing the original DVD drive in the top slot and a second one in the normally empty lower optical drive bay.

I used to use them for data backup and to burn slideshow DVDs and BluRays for wedding clients, via third party applications such as Roxio Toast and Adobe Encore.

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Is it a parabolic dish (completely round, LNB in the signal path) or an offset dish (oval shaped with LNB underneath the signal path) ?

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Hello, all of your comments seem very knowledgeable, especially as my electronic appreciation is zilch. I was hoping for someone to recommend a company to fix/renew/sort out the satellite. At 71 years of age I really do not want to start climbing ladders etc.

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OK. It’s a bit hard to recommend someone if we don’t live locally. I live quite a way from you and I can’t see anyone on the user map that lives that close to you although not everyone (including me !) is on the map. The best thing to do is try to get a recommendation locally.

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I agree, local recommendation. In the past we found several artisans by asking in the local bar, either the owners or people we knew there.

Isn’t there a website called something like Trouver un Artisan?

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Parabolic.

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We are based between Grasse and Cannes and have FreeSat working fine. Our setup is a 1.2m parabolic dish (unknown brand), High gain, low loss TM-2 universal twin LNB from Technomate, low loss dual coax cable and connectors plus the latest Freesat UHD receiver. The setup was a little tricky getting the right alignment but with a quality satellite meter it is now spot on. Most of the year we receive all channels fine but during summer a few HD channels drop out mid-day for a few hours. Apart from that, all channels are working great. A previously posted by others good quality equipment makes a huge difference, especially if you are further south like ourselves.