My new BM5000s arrived this week and overall I am quite impressed. Firstly, the price £79.99 from ebay. It does everything the BM7000s does and much more. I had a wi-fi dongle lying around from an old laptop, popped it into the front usb port and played around with the network settings, next to no time later had a 100% wi-fi connection. (So now the ethernet cable is in the PS3)
Setting up the cccam was a breeze too, I didn't bother with the config file I’d downloaded I just set it up with the remote control. It’s working great, if anything, better than the BM7000s, It’s holding onto the network so well I haven’t noticed a single channel freeze (yet).
The 1080p HD picture is so good even my Mrs. commented on it (trust me, that’s a big deal)
Next I put a couple of downloaded .avi movies onto my HDD to try the media player and that’s perfect too. I've tried it with .avi & MP4 both working great.
The 7 day EPG is a breeze to populate, simply press EPG on the RC then press the red button, takes about 30 seconds or so. (I think the EPG info comes in via the broadband connection)
A couple of things I don't like: [Porn Tube] is always there in the menu options, it’s easy enough to password protect but I’d rather it was hidden completely (like on the BM7000s), as far as I can see this isn't an option. Another problem is adding channels to your Favourites. It’s took me yonks to realise that there’s silly little icons on the bottom of the screen which you have to highlight to add the channels but there’s no way of telling which icon represents which FAV group, it’s a matter of pen & paper and trial & error, for example on my setup the ‘shopping trolly’ icon represents the Sports group (WTF!)
Overall though, I really like the BM5000s and would deffo recommend it.
It's in the first post. However, and for some reason, the donated member status doesn't always take priority over a member's other user group. As such, I have manually changed this for you.How do I download the firmware?
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