Differences from DM800 HD PVR to Cloneboxes

[whinpo]

Re: Differences from DM800 HD PVR to Cloneboxes

A Dreambox 800HD Clone cost abt 180Euros
800 HDse Clone (latest) 228 Euros

A Dreambox 800 HD Original cost abt 395 Euros
800 HDse Original cost abt 475 Euros.

nearly half the price... but what about warranty...I guess we can keep on dreaming a chinese clone factory would accept to manage warranty in case of failure?

Main difference is cheap chinese manufactured chipsets in clone DM800 but functionality is still the same as original, But you do have to be cautious about which images you load on a clone as a mistake could brick your machine

And the brick can't be fixed with a JTAG?

[naiarty]

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Deam box clone Have cooling fun and make some noise you can not usr any image and some plugin do not work(multimediatrk...) but yf you do not have much money you can buy one ,i havr one about 0ne yer and work good just must know if have sim 2.01.

[housy01]

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They say that you have 1 year guarantee but the return shipping cost are on your charge. The shipping to china could be expensive depending your country...
Chineese clones contains less quality components. If you're lucky, you will have a box without problem but you can also have many problem...
For example, I bought a DM 800 HD clone on nextbay and sometimes I cannot boot it. I have an error on the LCD screen. I need to open it and just shake the tuner to solve it...

[alfred_1]

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My personal opionen is to go for an Original.....I rather wait a bit more until I have saved enough money then buy something else which might give me a lot of hassle later on.

[digicon]

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I would say go for an original as well but the price is too high for the machine, Plus there are better specified sat boxes out there now that outperform the DM800 and are actually cheaper.

Why buy DM800 original when you could have twin tuner VU+ Duo for about same price it makes no sense. DM hold the higher price due to its popularity

[housy01]

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Yeah, as said before, the main criteria to choose one or other is the price ...

[rraja83]

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The way this comparision is presented ...it is more favorable to clone box... some people actually claims that clone boxes are even better than original...is that true?

[GerB68]

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...but functionality is still the same as original...

The way this comparision is presented ...it is more favorable to clone box... some people actually claims that clone boxes are even better than original...is that true?

I had a clone for 6 months and the motherboard died. I bought a replacement clone motherboard from china and after 2 months that died too.
I noticed with clones certain images, features and/or plugins may or may not work correctly or may even cause the box to brick. I love the DM800 and to tell the truth I used to treat the clones with kit gloves knowing deep down that they could fail at any time.
Then, One day, while I had the extra money I went and bought a Genuine box. My reaction was WOW! Compared to a clone a Genuine box is by far way way better. The Quality is fantastic. Its durable and all features and plugins work perfectly and much faster (and its silent).

Its like going from Windows 98 with a pentium 3 to Windows 7 with a Core i7.

I now regret how much money I wasted on clones.

[ale69]

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I have a DM 800HD for over a year and works perfectly. I also installed the original images to the DM but without sustaining any damage as I've read in previous posts. The only drawback is that in this case it is necessary to flash the bootloader with DreamUP

[Zeyn]

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Main difference is cheap chinese manufactured chipsets in clone DM800 but functionality is still the same as original, But you do have to be cautious about which images you load on a clone as a mistake could brick your machine

possibly in the clones and similar in functionality chip, but here the components of the assembly itself including capacitors, transistors, LEDs, from the cheapest manufacturer, they are not reliable, any defective component of the motherboard can result in damage and seriously, this is not correct by JTAG

[Bazinga]

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Im very happy with my clones, I thought clones had limited capabilities before I bought them.

[Bazinga]

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So which of the dreambox receivers DON'T have clones? Or they all do... ?

I think all the good ones have clones, the ones that probably don't have clones are probably the old models or less popular genuine models.

[Bazinga]

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So, is the lifespan different?

I dont thinks so. sometime quality of a clone can be bad, for example my experience, I have 2 clone dm800

one of my dm800 has a dent on the metal where hard drive is placed and my dm800 doesn't switch aspect ratio via scart and the other one does.

[Bazinga]

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And as for the picture quality (talking if we have the same boxes on a same TV)?

picture quality is same, all High Definition quality is same.