Well i could not wait so i've open the et8500 and connected to my old aerial which does not work with my freeview tv picture stutter (very old and not wideband). After doing a search and getting to 90% with no chans found i looked at the back and realised i had it plugged in tuner d swapped it to tuner a and it found 145 chans in secs.
The tuner does seem quite sensitive although i do still get a bit of breakup, but thats not the boxes fault. Installing the hdd was the easiest i've ever done on a e2 box flip a tab out on the side a tray pulls out drop your hdd in and push it back in. It initialized 2tb in a really fast. It has a nice big display on the front of it so you can see whats happening (really handy for me as its going in a media cupboard).
Just got to wait for a cable connection to test the rest now
The tuner does seem quite sensitive although i do still get a bit of breakup, but thats not the boxes fault. Installing the hdd was the easiest i've ever done on a e2 box flip a tab out on the side a tray pulls out drop your hdd in and push it back in. It initialized 2tb in a really fast. It has a nice big display on the front of it so you can see whats happening (really handy for me as its going in a media cupboard).
Just got to wait for a cable connection to test the rest now