This looks good but I cant see an ethernet connection mentioned ? I need one right ? Technomate 5400 CI FTA Satellite Receiver £84.99


Ive had a look into this sat stuff and decided to knock the motor dish on the head for now and just use the sky minidish I already have on the wall ?

just for now till I get started Ive decided to go for a linux based box just get my freeview on then work from there.

Is this a decent box for the price lads ?

Technomate 5400 CI FTA Satellite Receiver £84.99

FREE TO AIR (FTA) Satellite Receiver
The Technomate 5400 CI + PVR is set out to truly amaze you! This versatile box allows you to view your treasured photos, listen to music; this box clearly does it all! With the added feature of USB functionality; you can save patches on a USB stick, or even connect a USB Hard Drive to record your favourite programmes!!!
If you are still not amazed, the speed of this box certainly will amaze you. It is arguably one of the fastest receivers on the market and the speed of this box is just breath-taking!


Features
Fully DVB compliant
10,000 TV and Radio channels
USB 2.0 PVR ready via powered external HDD or USB Flash Drive (memory stick) for Record and Playback functions
MP3 player and JPEG viewer via powered external HDD or USB Flash Drive (memory stick)
Fast Software and Channel List download via USB 2.0
Component (YPbPr) Output
Fast Blind Search (Power Scan)
Super Sensitive tuner for very weak signals
Optical Digital Audio S/PDIF Output
Free to Air (FTA)
Less than 1 second channel change
DiSEqC 1.0, 1.1, 1.2 and 1.3 (USALS) compatible
DiSEqC Indicator
Enhanced 16 Favourite Channel Groups and sort function
Auto Navigation System - select as many Satellites as you wan to search automatically
High quality video and audio by MPEG-2 standard
Extended EPG and program reservation on EPG
Easy-to-use menu system with comments for guidance
Channel delete, move, rename and sort functions
Automatic digital Satellite signal detecting function
Multiple switch types, LNB types and NTSC/PAL Monitor types
Manual Transponder Editing
Supports PAL/NTSC systems
Parental Control function
Last channel auto-saving and recall function
Hi-speed software upgrade through RS232 (Null Modem)
Receiver-to-Receiver data transfer via RS232
PLL type RF-Modulator (Ch. 21-69) and UHF tuning function
Automatic digital Satellite signal detecting function
Antenna-positioning help function
Various games
9 Multipicture display
Timer Function
Multi-Event Timer
Teletext Function
Automatic FEC and PID deection and manual entry of PID value
Pause function
Real Time Clock
Multi-Language OSD
Teletext and Subtitle support by OSD and VBI
LNB Short Circuit protection onboard
280mm x 55mm x 235mm

Is this box Linux?

no its not m8, for linux youll need either the TM500/600 or 9100, or a dreambox

Thought it wasn't, just wondered why it was posted in the Linux section, I hope they don't buy it thinking its a Linux box when it is not.

id hang fire for a while longer digdude said there was going to be new technnomate linux boxes due out soon january i think it was

yep HD TM linux boxes are finally in testing stages, but, i have been told that theres some sort of problem with software, and untill this is resolved they wont release the receivers, i guess they learned the hard way from the release of the first 9100, while it is annoying for those waiting for them to be released, itll mean that when they finally do get released to the public, they will be (or should be) as stable as the 500/600