Tuner swap - is it easy

[Smiler2005]

I have a sat dbox and would like to remove the tuner to fit a cable one.

As I am having a real issue with the cable box, I though I might be able to utilise the sat one as I know it has a good sportster image on it.

Rgds
STeve

 

[cooltool]

are they of the same make? .. i dont think it iwll be easy just buy a new nokia dbox2 cable ..

 

[Smiler2005]

they are both nokia boxes.

 

[Speedy2206]

To put it simple..... it will be the hardest electronics thing that you ever do! Swapping a tuner for one of the same type is hard enough.... swapping a cable tuner for a sat tuner and vice versa is even worse!

 

[cooltool]

have a look at the hardware .. loooots of soldering ..

 

[mgb]

Its a soldering job, you need a new cable tuner and you have to change parts on the mainboard.
Normally it makes no sense. Sell the sat box and buy a cable box.

 

[Smiler2005]

there does not seem to be a market for the sat ones though, unless someone knows different.

 

[cooltool]

yeah there is stick it on ebay stating it is a SAT version .. i think u will get a decent price .. u can still use it to receive all free to air Sat tv which is a looot .. not all very interesting but there are many channels

 

[Smiler2005]

yeah there is stick it on ebay stating it is a SAT version .. i think u will get a decent price .. u can still use it to receive all free to air Sat tv which is a looot .. not all very interesting but there are many channels

Thnx, I bought it from a bloke on fleabay who stated that it worked with TW, NTL and C&W. To me this means that it is a Cable Dbox. He had carefully removed the word cable from the title of the auction. Basically he copied the whole ad of the bloke he got it from.

When I received it, surprise surprise it had a sat tuner. I complained and he said that he had not stated that it was a cable or sat box and he sent what he had described. I queried it wit Paypal i.e. raised a dispute with them and they are in the process of deciding.

I don't hold out much hope of getting my money back though. I think I will just do as you suggest and list it as a sat box.

Thnx again.

 

[cooltool]

you can complain to ebay, the item might fall into "fals advertised" and u can get some money back. i did it with a dbox1 i got which should have been a dbox2. Also leave the idiot some nice negative feedback allways rewarding
Just sell it honestly on ebay stat that you can get over 1000's of channels if you set it up right. i think u'll get at least 30 to 40 quid .. its after all a digital satelite receiver which are not that cheap ...

 

[Smiler2005]

I just hope that paypal review the ad and don't say something along the lines of "you bought something to use illegally."

As for the neg feedback, I find it pretty useless. I have 100% positive but only because I never leave neg for anyone. I just dont leave feedback. You tend to find that if u leave neg then they will also.

Rgds