I think it is a matter of choice... for me I rather have a small box with a better tuner; as I have more than one receiver and the DM500 is really nice in size. The Phillips tuner helps in weak channels were the LG would fail. Also price was a big deal, I could buy two DM500 instead of only one DM7000.
Recording with NGrab using SF image was perfect... just burned directly to DVD. Most of the issues you mention disapear as it is burned into one DVD.
Using .ts files is nice but to tell you the truth not needed for what I do.
I think that with software most of the issues could be resolved. But one thing is really bad on the DM500 RGB output... that really affects quality... I am using S-Video which is nicer that composite but I wonder how much better could it be with RGB output (cannot use components because my TV only supports SCART RGB). I know that some channels are already with low bitrates and it doesn't really matter, as image quality is low but with some good channels image should be amazing in RGB.
That is why I am waiting for the DM7020... it will be a while until there are some good firmware as it is completely different from the 7000S but while I wait I am happy with the DM500.
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Originally Posted by eriksla
Even if you are not planning to add a harddisk (I have two dm7000's, neither one has a harddisk), it still more sensible to buy a dm7000, because ts streaming (aka ngrab, etc.) remains flakey on the dm500 (and dm5620), especially on encrypted channels. This shows as freezes, blocky artifacts and sometimes a stream that isn't decrypted at all. Also the stream it produces isn't a 100% valid transport stream, the dreambox itself won't play it (!). This isn't simply a matter of starting streaming at an invalid boundary in the stream, I checked that out.
The only reliable way of recording is using the enigma recording function (either using remote control or web interface) and record to either harddisk, nfs or cifs (latter not tested here ;-))
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