I went ahead and brought the box. Should have it tomorrow or tuesday :-)
Return it as soon as it arrives and save the heartache of it crashing and missing recordings, failed epg loads etc etc. I owned a TM2T for a year and had nothing but problems.Originally Posted by pz8l8t
The main reason for purchase was for the RF out but it was utter s***
I replaced with a VU Solo 2 a couple of months ago and the reliability and speed is amazing. Not one issue/missed recording/crash. Also running VIX.
Check out my comments on missed recordings etc. It was never fixed even with TM new drivers. Would never touch a TM again.
Nonsense. The TM-Twin & TM2T work perfectly well with current ViX images.
You can be sure there would be a lot more complaints popping up here if they didn't.
TM get the drivers wrong every now & again but so do VU, GigaBlue & so on...
Larry-G (18-02-14)
Well I for one can't fault my TM twin fantastic bit of kit does all I want it to do and probably more if I was to delve a bit deeper
So I thought I would provide an update in case anybody else has the same questions as I did.
Had the technomate twin for 1 week now. So far I've been impressed with its stability. It has crashed on me a couple of times when trying to changing aspect ratio (suspect its a bug) and it also froze on me last night when trying to record, download via tsmedia and then trying to clean up some previous timers. Nothing to brother about really. Other than that its been rock solid. Setup a few timer records all worked prefectly. Setup a series record yesterday which kicked on ok (will monitor over the next few weeks but don't expect any issues).
So I'm happy with the purchase and the few quid saved over the Solo2.
Some oberservsations when comparing it against my Solo2:
* It is nowhere near as quick as the Solo2 in terms of responsiveness. The remote of the Solo2 is far more responsive as is the system itself (menu, epg, scrolling etc). I'm not overly surprised about this given the difference in CPU. Having said this, I wasn't really aware of how fast the Solo2 was compared to the rest of the market until I brought the TM.
* The TM does run hotter than the Solo2. The Solo2 runs at about 35C on standby and about 29C when watching TV. The TM runs at 55C-59C on standby and about 46C when watching TV. Having read a few posts on here about the running temp of the TM, it seems this is normal.
*Overall I would say the TM Twin is a solid performing box but is not in the same league as the Solo2 in terms of speed. The look and feel is the same and so far I haven't found anything that the Solo2 can do that the TM can't. If like me your after specific features which the Solo2 doesn't have or looking so save your ~£100 then I would say buy the TM Twin. If money isn't an issue and your not after RF out, loop out, and 3.5 inch hdd capabilties the twin offers then the Solo2 would be my recommendation.
It makes me laugh everyone who complains about the TM-2T. Even though I only had mine for a few weeks, thanks to some moron parking his double decker bus in the front of my car, I thought it was an amazing little receiver. Once it was all setup I never had any issues with it at all.
Even the recordings worked Ok on it. As i have set before it usually down to user setup on how well a receiver performs. If you fill the memory up with plugins which you will never use or ones that are known to cause issues then they will cause problems. I set my main receiver up with the bare minimum of plugins I need and everyone bar the crappy Amiko Alien 2 I had has worked flawlessly.
All of my current receivers work fine and I never need to mess with them, even the TM800 and nBox5800s.
Nano
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