[Ingo]

Is it only me or is the UEC HD PVR noisy? I finally decided to migrate from al old singleview decoder to something that can actually do HD picture to go with my HD sound system. To my disappointment I found that the HD PVR fan makes a loud enough noise to irritate the living #$%^ out of me.

I've returned devices for far less noise and this one is borderline going back to Makro. At least my old decoder was whisper quiet albeit I had to reboot it almost every day and it gives only SD pictures.

Ingo

[Merv]

Yup, the UEC is noisy. Definitely not a decoder for the bedroom

[gwalker]

Originally Posted by Ingo

Is it only me or is the UEC HD PVR noisy? I finally decided to migrate from al old singleview decoder to something that can actually do HD picture to go with my HD sound system. To my disappointment I found that the HD PVR fan makes a loud enough noise to irritate the living #$%^ out of me.

I've returned devices for far less noise and this one is borderline going back to Makro. At least my old decoder was whisper quiet albeit I had to reboot it almost every day and it gives only SD pictures.

Ingo

I have mine very well ventilated about half a meter from the aircon on top of a wall unit without any sides, it runs cool and fans not to noisy (more noise from the aircon!).

Having said that, there is a hard drive which gets warm and power supply/processor which gets hotter than the old SD dumb boxes which need cooling.

[KennethM]

The UEC was noticeably noisier than the Pace when placed in the same position but I've grown used to it and now it just blends into the general background noise.

[Ingo]

What a shame, you would think with newer technology comes better cooling methods.

UEC, what were you thinking???

[gwalker]

Originally Posted by Ingo

What a shame, you would think with newer technology comes better cooling methods.

UEC, what were you thinking???

Costs and price. MCA mandate is the cheapest possible unit

[Tapiwa]

You should've got the Pace.... Its whisper quite and sexy.

[Geoff D]

Originally Posted by Ingo

What a shame, you would think with newer technology comes better cooling methods.

UEC, what were you thinking???

And that is exactly where you are wrong!, the more processing power needed and the bigger the HDD, is the more power it draws, the more heat it generates, the more NB cooling becomes, the bigger the fan gets, the more costly it gets to reduce the noise level from the fan the more expensive the STB gets. So short cuts are inevitable and one of these is on noise level supression/quiter running fans ..............

[Tulani]

Originally Posted by Tapiwa

You should've got the Pace.... Its whisper quite and sexy.

“beauty is in the eye of the beholder” …lol. i personally can live with the UEC hdpvr with its better response ...and the said "noise" is not anything I can condemn it for