Vu+ Solo4K

[twol]

Just seen the price of the Mut@nt HD51 4K and with twin tuners it makes the Vu 4K price (apologies to the sponsor) just a sick joke (even with fba tuners) .... and the Mut@nt (shiiping apparently this week) has the better Broadcom chip .... Considering the early user issues with the Vu, seems they should make a gesture to them .... But I guess Vu will not look upon that idea kindly.

[Rob van der Does]

I don't agree.
The HD51 has no FBC-tuners (and that's really a different league!), no extra tunerslot and on top of that no transcoding and probably no HbbTV
So you compare a 2 tuner box with a 10 tuner box (OK: officially a 4 tuner box, but has 6 additional logical tuners)!

Of course: if you don't need all that, the budget box might be the better choice. But you were talking about comparing prices.

[twol]

I don't agree.
The HD51 has no FBC-tuners (and that's really a different league!), no extra tunerslot and on top of that no transcoding and probably no HbbTV
So you compare a 2 tuner box with a 10 tuner box (OK: officially a 4 tuner box, but has 6 additional logical tuners)!

Of course: if you don't need all that, the budget box might be the better choice. But you were talking about comparing prices.

Transcoding is on the SoC from Broadcom (for both Vu and Mutant), so that all Vu have done is add fbc (eventually working but no thanks to vu), provide an older SoC and charge about 140 pounds more..... for me not a. great deal. Hbbtv thats like Ci+ A continental issue

[Rob van der Does]

The SoC may be able to provide transcoding, but that doesn't mean the box does (see e.g. Solo2 & Nano2S: same SoC, but no transcoding for the N2S).
And FBC-tuners are far more expensive than old tuners.
So what I say is that you are comparing two completely different boxes, with completely different features.

[twol]

The SoC may be able to provide transcoding, but that doesn't mean the box does (see e.g. Solo2 & Nano2S: same SoC, but no transcoding for the N2S).
And FBC-tuners are far more expensive than old tuners.
So what I say is that you are comparing two completely different boxes, with completely different features.

Yep transcoding correct, I was just pushing the point that it is on the chip!
Ref fbc tuners, I guess they are using the Broadcom dvb-s2 fbc tuner chip which at volume is not likely to be that expensive. .... but pure speculation on my part