High-Definition FTA Satellite Receiver - Passion any good?

[jimmyboy]

Are the above any good (in the short term)? Someone I know is moving to the US and selling his box he bought from Ma**ins? It has 2 CI slots I wondered if it was internally patchable or would I need to buy a dragon cam or use my old conax cam (4.0 if tthis could be upgraded)? (My hummy 5400 died a year ago and using a skystar2 card since then so I feel out of date with sat boxes:respect-053:). Or maybe I should wait for the ibo***0 or dm800?

[ts]

Good for hd if you are not after pvr. There were rumors about pvr but has gone quiet. But as i said it is a good basic HD box and works with Dragon/Diablo

Not pachable though... no emus

[jimmyboy]

How easy or cheap is it to buy a dragon/diablo?

[mizo]

hello mate i have the same receiver i think its ok not the best for hd pictures, it struggles with occasionally with different cams, the menu is a pain in the arse well for me anyway. Read also that some of the M****S receivers were seconds and sometimes faulty.
hope that helps

[satwyn]

yes I also have used the passion ok with cams as stated picture ok everything works fine but nothing special to buy your cams see the sponsors diablo v2.3 is the latest on the market

[jimmyboy]

To be honest with you, once I have bought a cam/ cas3 programmer thats another £130 and the box will cost me£120 secound hand (or 159 new) so may wait for the ipbo***0 and just use images via my PC network connection. Unless there is a receiver that can do that on the market with HD- the technomate HD- can I patch that?

[satwyn]

tm hd yes

[xanadu]

I have the Pace HD receiver which has a great picture but no good with CAMS.

Just bought a Fortec Passion from Fleabay for HD use with my Diablo 2.3 until the IPBo x 9 00 or Vantage HD8000 appears in a month or two.