So I’ve encountered the red light of death on my VU Duo that I’ve had for around 3 years or so. I know it’s potentially fixable but given the age of the unit I’m minded to upgrade my machine.
I don’t need too much out of it, I bought the Duo as it was a twin tuner and I had a 500MB HDD added so that I could also record the copious amount of rubbish the wife and the kids like to watch.
Therefore I don’t really want to break the bank for a new box. I like the VU’s and had just about settled on a Solo2 (which I think is a twin tuner and can add the HDD) when I saw the Vu+ Solo SE V2 . I’m now confused which is the better box (I think you can add another tuner to the SE, am I right?). I've noticed the SE also has the option of a 500GB USB HDD, which I like the sound of as I've always found my Duo HDD to be slow and a bit noisy.
Basically I’m wondering which is the best value once I add the additional bits on that I need (HDD, and tuner for the SE). Any advice on these would be really appreciated (or whether there are other better value twin tuners?).
Cheers, Chris