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The Vu+ is a series of Linux-powered DVB satellite, terrestrial digital television receivers (set-top box), produced by German multimedia vendor Satco Europe GmbH.

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 Enigma2, which was orginally 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 issued an 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 "Enigma2" is a registered trademark name of Dream Multimedia GmbH.[1]

In the middle of September in 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).[2]

Models

File:Vu+Duo Back.JPG
Vu+ Duo back
Vu+ Duo front
Vu+ Ultimo Uno Solo Duo *** DM800SE
Production not released Avaiable Available Available Available
Life cycle 2011 - 2011 - 2010- 2010- 2010-
SoC BCM7413 BCM7413 BCM7325 BCM7335 BCM7405
CPU type MIPS MIPS MIPS MIPS MIPS
CPU (MHz) 400 400 333 400 400
RAM (MiB) 512 512 256 384 256
Flash (MiB) 1024 128 128 128
Flash type (NAND) (NAND) (NAND) NAND
Default OS Enigma2 Enigma2 Enigma2 Enigma2 Enigma2
DVB 1 * S2 + 2 * (S2/C/T) 1 × S2 1 × S2 2 × S2 1 × S2
HDTV Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
3D TV Yes No No No No
PiP Yes same TP No Yes No
Common Interface 2 2 2 2 0
Smart card 2 2 2 2 2
USB 3 x 2.0 3 x 2.0 2 x 2.0 3 x 2.0 2 x 2.0
RS232 Yes Yes Yes Yes No
LAN (Mbit/s) Yes 100 100 100 100
HDD 2.5/3.5 in 2.5/3.5 in No 3.5 in 2.5 in
ATA SATA SATA No SATA SATA
eSATA Yes Yes No Yes Yes
SCART 1 1 1 2 1
HDMI / HDCP 1 / 1 / - 1 / - 1 / - 1 / -
Display VFD VFD No VFD Color Oled
LNB pass-thru Yes Yes No No No
Other connectors 1 x YPrPb 1 x YPrPb 1 x Service Mini-USB
  • *** DM800HD SE added as a reference model

Twin tuner

  • Vu+ Duo (fixed tuner)

Single Tuner

  • Vu+ Solo (fixed tuner)
  • Vu+ Uno (modular tuner DVB-S2/C/T)

References

  1. ^ http://www.dream-multimedia-tv.de/en/temporary-injunction Temporary injunction against Satco Europe
  2. ^ http://www.vuplus-community.net/board/threads/vu-day-in-amsterdam.3197/ Vu+ Day in Amsterdam - VUplus XBMC

See also

Official

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