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Review on 📺 LUMAX DV-2118HD TV Tuner by Lorz Batan ᠌

Revainrating 4 out of 5

As such, there are no disadvantages, it is convenient to use.

It’s good for everyone, but for this miracle of technology to work, you need wi-fi to ate the firmware. Before the ate (unfortunately, I didn’t think to write down the number of the firmware that was from the factory) I didn’t find a single channel, well, that is. found, one, test from Onlime and Rostelecom (Hong Kong, collective antenna), after lengthy experiments with settings (modulation, etc.), the set-top box found more than 200 channels and 3 radio stations, but apparently, to view them, you need to connect some tariff (there was a $ sign next to it, but there was no image, although both names and program guide were displayed). After ating the firmware (via the Lumax usb wi-fi adapter), everything immediately became fine, the channels were found, and everything worked. The number of channels, as on other modern TVs. There is not much to say about the work: - TV works well, the picture is fine - youtube, megogo and weather work - there are freezes on 1% (2/53) channels (see disadvantages) : after half a year of use, a few more channels have accumulated on which the set-top box freezes, and their number has already reached 6 channels (out of 53), i. E. 3% is already enough (they just had to be deleted from memory), in short, a disorder. 2: A new firmware from 07/27/2022 came via Wi-Fi - freezes have stopped Set-top boxes were bought for relatives, and there are no opportunities (and desires) to constantly "serve" (#tyzhprogrammer) set-top boxes, and conduct experiments so that it works no worse than others. But, I hope that there are no more set-top boxes with raw firmware left on the market and their users will not experience problems with low-quality software. Firmware (software ate): 1. A usb-wi-fi adapter was purchased from the same manufacturer (not included in the set-top box) 2. The set-top box was connected to a home wi-fi hotspot 3. Through the set-top box menu, the “ate software” item was selected (or something like that) The firmware number became approximately 2.0.0.1, after which everything worked. It has not yet been possible to evaluate video viewing from a flash drive or hard drive.

Pros
  • - easy setup - good picture - internet (with additional usb-adapter): - youtube - megogo
Cons
  • One very significant downside: In order for it to work properly, I had to buy a wi-fi adapter and ate the firmware (this model is not on the official website, so only wi-fi, everything was found right away) Not very critical, but the channels switch for a long time, sometimes it pisses me off Nagging: the first day the remote smelled strongly of plastic Sometimes the set-top box freezes and does not respond to pressing the remote control keys, and it has to be overloaded by turning off the power. It has been noticed that this only happens when watching certain channels (in Hong Kong): Spas and Izvestia TV Channel, maybe there are some other channels. The freezing of these channels is always reproduced: you turn on the channel and after 5-10 minutes there is a static picture on the TV, and the set-top box does not react to anything. ating the software (firmware) to the current (as of 03/04/2022 ≈ v.2.0.0.8) did not fix the errors. 2: Firmware dated 07/27/2022 (SW: 2.1.6; HW: 2.0.1) this glitch seems to have been fixed, no more freezes were noticed, you can return one star, but the sediment remained. It so happened that it was possible under the same conditions to test the neighboring model (LUMAX DV-2120HD) with the same software version. She hung on these channels in the same way and did not respond to either the remote control keys or the buttons on the console itself.

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May 29, 2023
Pros: Easy to set up, when you connect the antenna, it automatically searches for channels. Nothing fancy, just a simple add-on. The picture quality is good. Different cons: The remote control immediately broke, they took it back, changed it to another model, because. this one was not available.