Thinking of buying the S4000HD

[Tarzan]

Hi,

I am thinking of buying the S4000HD especially for the Twin Tuner offering and PIP functionality.

I was wondering if it does support EPG like Sly UK or anything close to it.

And how easy is it to upgrade the internal HDD?

[steford1]

HDD upgrade simple - just open and replace - there may be some preferred drives.

There's an EPG of sorts but nothing like as good as Sky's custom one.

[ManikM]

only now and next

[Tarzan]

How does the PIP functionality work??

And is the Blindscan software or hardware blindscan?

[steford1]

PIP is actually pretty nice and works well. Hit PiP button to get up small screen which can be positioned in 4 corners. Hit switch to toggle as main or side by side or back in corner. There's a PiP service select to select channel there based on your tuner setup/current mux.

Not sure about the blindscan.

[ManikM]

i must admt the blindscan is slow, but thorough. about 30 mins a sat.

[dizz]

Yeah, I set up a blindscan across all sats, it had been going for about 10 hours when I stopped it because I actually wanted to watch some TV. :)

[echelon]

HDD upgrade simple - just open and replace - there may be some preferred drives.

There's an EPG of sorts but nothing like as good as Sky's custom one.

is this a 2.5 inch sata hdd , or a 3.5 inch sata hdd ; or can either be used ?

thanks

[reboot]

The S4000 has a standard 3.5" HDD mounting and I've been told it can handle up to 4 Tb.
A Hitachi 1 Tb caused my S4000 to lock up after about an hours use so I changed to a WD AV 500Gb. The recommended drive is a WD green it seems but my WD AV seems to be OK.
A 2.5" HDD should work fine except you will have to adapt the mounting to make it fit in the 3.5" mounting.

[steford1]

I'm using the 320GB stock drive but if I was adding one the WD Green would be my preference - so good to know it's compatible.