Vu+

The Vu+ is a series of Linux-powered DVB satellite, terrestrial digital television receivers (set-top box), produced by Korean multimedia brand Ceru Company Ltd.

History and Description

Its firmware is officially user-upgradable, since it is a Linux-based computer, as opposed to third-party "patching" of alternate receivers. Firmware is based on Enigma 2, which was originally designed for Dreambox by Dream Multimedia. All units support Conax conditional access (CA) system, with software-emulated CA Modules (CAMs) available for many alternate CA systems. The built-in Ethernet interface allows networked computers to access the recordings on the internal hard disks and stream live picture from the tuners. It also enables the receiver to store digital copies of DVB MPEG transport streams on networked filesystems or broadcast the streams as IPTV to VideoLAN and XBMC Media Center clients. Unlike many PC based PVR systems that use free-to-air type of DVB receiver cards, the built-in conditional access allows receiving and storing encrypted content.

In the beginning of September in 2011, Dream Multimedia obtained a temporary injunction against the Satco Europe GmbH company for using their "Enigma 2" name in an advertising flyer to promote the Linux operating system installed on the Vu+ set-top-boxes, as "Enigma"(2)is a registered trademark name of Dream Multimedia GmbH.

In the middle of September 2011, at Vu+ Day in Amsterdam, it was announced that the next-generation Vu+ DVB satellite receivers to be released publicly in the end of 2012 will be using XBMC Media Center software for its GUI, a development project that they call XBMC4STB (XBMC for Set-Top-Boxes).

Models

Vu+ Duo back

Vu+ Duo front

Vu+	Ultimo	Uno	Solo	Solo2	Duo	Duo2	*** DM800SE
Production	Available	Available	Available	Available	Available	New	Available
Life cycle	2011 -	2011 -	2010-	2012-	2010-	2012-	2010-
SoC	BCM7413	BCM7413	BCM7325	BCM7356	BCM7335	BCM7424	BCM7405
CPU type	MIPS	MIPS	MIPS	MIPS	MIPS	MIPS	MIPS
CPU (MHz)	2x400	2x400	333*	2x1300	400	2x1300	400
RAM (MiB)	512	512	256	1024	384	2048	256
Flash (MiB)	1024	128	128	256	128	1024	64
Flash type	NAND	NAND	NAND	NAND	NAND	NAND	NAND
Default OS	Enigma2	Enigma2	Enigma2	Enigma2	Enigma2	Enigma2	Enigma2
DVB	3 × P&P (S2/C/T)	1 × (S2/C/T)	1 × S2	2 × S2	2 × S2	2 × P&P (S2/C/T)	1 × S2
HDTV	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
3D TV	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
PiP	Yes	same TP	No	Yes/HD	Yes	Yes/HD	No
Common Interface	2	2	2	1	2	2	0
Smart card	2	2	1	2	2	2	2
USB	3 x 2.0	3 x 2.0	2 x 2.0	3 x 2.0	3 x 2.0	3 x 2.0	2 x 2.0
RS232	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
LAN (Mbit/s)	100 + 300Mbps USB-WIFI	100	100	1000	100	1000 + Built in WIFI-N	100
HDD	2.5/3.5 in	2.5/3.5 in	No	2.5 in	3.5 in	2.5/3.5 in	2.5 in
ATA	SATA II	SATA II	No	SATA III	SATA II	SATA III	SATA
eSATA	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
SCART	1	1	1	1	2	1	1
HDMI / HDCP	1 / ?	1 / -	1 / -	1 / -	1 / -	1 / -	1 / -
Display	graphical VFD	VFD	No	VFD	VFD	LCD/VFD	Color Oled
LNB pass-thru	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No	No
Other connectors	1 x YPrPb		1 x YPrPb		1 x YPrPb	1 x YPrPb	1 x Service Mini-USB
Dimensions, WxHxD (mm)	380 x 60 x 290	340 x 60 x 272	280 x 50 x 200	280 x 50 x 200	380 x 60 x 280	?	195 x 40 x 140

• * Note that Vu+ Uno and Vu+ Ultimo have a dual core processor BCM7413.
• * in most cases solo is underclocked to 220.67MHz
• *** DM800HD SE added as a reference model

Triple tuner

• Vu+ Ultimo (1 fixed DVB-S/S2 tuner and 2 x p&p DVB-S2 or DVB-T/C tuners)

Twin tuner

• Vu+ Solo2 (2 x fixed DVB-S/S2 tuners)
• Vu+ Duo (2 x fixed DVB-S/S2 tuners)
• Vu+ Duo2 (2 x p&p DVB-S2 or DVB-T/C tuners)

Single Tuner

• Vu+ Solo (1 fixed DVB-S/S2 tuner)
• Vu+ Uno (1 p&p DVB-S2 or DVB-T/C tuner)

See also

• Dreambox
• DBox2
• Slingbox
• XBMC
• Smart TV
• Unibox

External links

Official

• Vu+ home page
• Satco Europe GmbH home page

Image

• Black Hole Image
• OpenPli Image
• VTI Image
• VIX Image
• DreamTeam Image
• AAF Image