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It may have kicked off with one groundbreaking product – the original Dreambox – but the idea of building a digital set-top box around Linux is now a widely-accepted practice. Thanks to its open-source ideals, others can refine the firmware or indeed develop their own from the ground up – a worldwide community of people can develop for the box.
One of the latest Linux-based satellite receivers is the Vu+ DUO which, despite its relatively modest asking price, is aimed at the upper end of the market.
Features include two DVB-S/S2 tuners, the ability to add a SATA hard drive for PVR use, HD capability and a host of network-related functions.
Appearance and connectivity
The uncluttered fascia of the Vu+ DUO is distinctive. Adjacent to a very readable 16-character fluorescent display is the 'dialswitch', a rotating wheel used to sequence through lists – pressing it selects the highlighted item.
Waking up the receiver in the first place could be a problem; there's no standby button, and so the remote is essential. Fortunately, when power is applied the receiver goes into its switched-on state as opposed to standby.
To the right of the display is a flap that conceals a USB port, two card-readers and two CI slots. With the 'stock' firmware – Enigma2, which will be familiar to users of the Dreambox and other Linux receivers – the Conax and Xcrypt CAMs are emulated.
The Vu+ DUO boasts two LNB inputs, one for each tuner. There are no loopthrough outputs, but a menu option internally feeds the input of the second tuner with the output of the first. Although this means no clumsy patch cords, you won't be able to feed a second receiver.
Scarts are provided for TV and VCR. There are also component and HDMI (up to 1080i) outputs. Also on the rear panel are an optical digital output (audio is also conveyed via HDMI), an eSATA port, two USB ports, Ethernet and a 'legacy' RS232 interface. The high-speed data ports allow firmware to be upgraded, and storage devices attached.
Setup
It came pre-installed with the Enigma2 firmware, but there are several alternatives knocking around the internet, including Open PLi, Dream-Elite and VTi – each with their own benefits, such as UK-specific EPGs, support for USB DTT tuners and internet video players. But for this review we'll stick with Enigma2 because it provides most of the day-to-day essentials.
In the interests of neatness and economy we recommend an internally fitting SATA HDD. While installing the drive, we appreciated the neat construction.
Unusually, the tuners are not the usual 'bought-in' screened cans – they're constructed on the main circuit board, which also sports components like the memory, interfaces and the heatsinked (Broadcom) core chip. Peripheral boards contain the switch-mode power supply and smart card readers.
Switch on for the first time and a series of 'wizards' help you install language, tuner setup, parental-control options and an initial scan – all parameters that can be modified later on via the comprehensive setup menus (among which is the HDD-formatting option – you'll need to use this before recording).
The DiSEqC capabilities are good. In addition to 1.2, the Vu+ DUO caters for simple switchboxes (1.0) and USALS. All the usual controls for dish movement are supported. Searching can take place on single or multiple transponders – multiple satellite searches are also allowed. Here, you just select the satellites from a list and the receiver 'visits' each in turn, moving the dish where necessary. This can be used as a Freesat receiver or with the correct card an cam for subscription channels.
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