they are closed source and very basic which means you cant do a great deal with them, in theory rat could redo his channel list to be compatible with the openbox or someone could replicate his work and put the channels in the same order but it would need maintaining seperately from his current work but there are various other channel lists all over the net and that list seems to be rising

you cant change skin, the current skin reminds me of an old cheapo freeview box but its clear and does the job

epg is only whats on 'now and next' there was a rumour of a custom firmware being developed with a 7 day guide but take that with a pinch of salt.

they are dirt cheap and it shows but what you do get is an easy to use box with decent picture quality that once setup, shouldnt give you much grief other than updating channels when frequencys change