2013-11-12, 21:29
Hello,
I thought I would start contributing to this forum and post a review on Matricom.net ' s G-Box Midnight MX2.
First I would like to start off by saying that I had 3x Apple TV 2's and was using them to watch XBMC on all my TV's. I loved it, they worked great, the only downfall was apple's patches and trying to defend against us using it & jailbreaking it to watch XBMC on. That being said I went to android, as they are easier and more user friendly to utilize XBMC.
When I made the switch to the MX2's I had mixed feelings. They were obviously less expensive which was great! But they seemed to lag a-lot more while the processor was processing commands and loading programs. The Apple TV 2 wouldn't do this! The controller sucked on the MX2 as it would only work "sometimes", I click the button twice for the most part to get it to work.
The fact I can load google play on this and download anything, is great! I even have USB options, keyboard, mouse, etc..!! awesome!
But the boxes now seem to be freezing and bricking by themselves. 2/3 boxes I have went into boot loop. One box I was able to patch with a beta firmware, the other bricked and wouldn't let me boot into the recovery screen to load a new firmware or anything! This is a known issue by everyone in the community including the vendor. Problem now is that the vendor, "Matricom.Net", has awful customer service. Now I didn't expect them to be perfect, but giving me the run around for a month+ and still not receiving a replacement box or my box repaired is crap. Not to mention a $20 shipping fee to get it fixed.
Not to rant, but these boxes are great! ...or will be great, when all the bugs are worked out and stuff. You need to be tech savy for this box to be any good to a person, be able to fix your own box, be able to flash your own box, etc.... If you at all rely on the vendor (Matricom.net) then your not going to be a happy camper as their customer service just plain sucks! Who knows, maybe one day that will change for the better too!
I'm sure in the future, after I get my monies worth out of these boxes, I will just build a PC specifically for playing media on my TV, load LINUX to it, and run XBMC off of that! It will be far superior in every way, except the pocket book! (I would say just as pricey as buying an apple tv... haha)
I thought I would start contributing to this forum and post a review on Matricom.net ' s G-Box Midnight MX2.
First I would like to start off by saying that I had 3x Apple TV 2's and was using them to watch XBMC on all my TV's. I loved it, they worked great, the only downfall was apple's patches and trying to defend against us using it & jailbreaking it to watch XBMC on. That being said I went to android, as they are easier and more user friendly to utilize XBMC.
When I made the switch to the MX2's I had mixed feelings. They were obviously less expensive which was great! But they seemed to lag a-lot more while the processor was processing commands and loading programs. The Apple TV 2 wouldn't do this! The controller sucked on the MX2 as it would only work "sometimes", I click the button twice for the most part to get it to work.
The fact I can load google play on this and download anything, is great! I even have USB options, keyboard, mouse, etc..!! awesome!
But the boxes now seem to be freezing and bricking by themselves. 2/3 boxes I have went into boot loop. One box I was able to patch with a beta firmware, the other bricked and wouldn't let me boot into the recovery screen to load a new firmware or anything! This is a known issue by everyone in the community including the vendor. Problem now is that the vendor, "Matricom.Net", has awful customer service. Now I didn't expect them to be perfect, but giving me the run around for a month+ and still not receiving a replacement box or my box repaired is crap. Not to mention a $20 shipping fee to get it fixed.
Not to rant, but these boxes are great! ...or will be great, when all the bugs are worked out and stuff. You need to be tech savy for this box to be any good to a person, be able to fix your own box, be able to flash your own box, etc.... If you at all rely on the vendor (Matricom.net) then your not going to be a happy camper as their customer service just plain sucks! Who knows, maybe one day that will change for the better too!
I'm sure in the future, after I get my monies worth out of these boxes, I will just build a PC specifically for playing media on my TV, load LINUX to it, and run XBMC off of that! It will be far superior in every way, except the pocket book! (I would say just as pricey as buying an apple tv... haha)