Ultimo vs duo??

[sherry]

Hi Does anyone know the difference between the two boxes and is the difference worth the extra money?

I think there is an extra tuner but what benefit does that have?

[pooface]

There are lots of differences...

ULTIMO has newer procesor, more memory, newer tuners (I think). But, the tuners are plug n play, and also have a loop through. Also, there is possibility of having 3 tuners. This means that you can have 3 feeds in to the box (enigma2 allows 4, so you can also plug a usb tuner in as well ). This allows you to watch / record more channels all at the same time. Also, the tuners have dvbs2 (hd satellite) and dvb-t/c (terrestrial and cable), so you have more flexibility... Finally, the remote on the ultimo looks to be the dogs danglies, and it also comes with a wifi adapter included which will definitely work, so no need to worry whether yours will work (if you don't have a wired lan connection). Finally, the ultimo has a nice looking vfd ... better than the ones on duo/et9k

As for cost, only you can decide whether it's worth it for you...

hth

[sherry]

Thank you for the reply.

When you say the tuner has terrestrial and cable, what does this mean.

thank you.

[pooface]

Thank you for the reply.

When you say the tuner has terrestrial and cable, what does this mean.

thank you.

Never having had one, I can't say with 100% certainty, but I assume it means you can use it for either terrestrial tv (i.e. from a standard roof aerial), or for cable television (such as virgin media)...

[Rob van der Does]

As for cost, only you can decide whether it's worth it for you...

Exactly: the Ultimo is absolutely the better one, but do you need it/want to pay it? And of course the DUO still is an excellent box.

btw: you forgot to mention the large OLED.

[pooface]

Finally, the ultimo has a nice looking vfd ... better than the ones on duo/et9k

btw: you forgot to mention the large OLED.

Nah, was still there Just I wasn't sure it was an oled, so didn't want to mention that name, so kept it just as vfd

[bassethound]

seen a ultimo pic a while back displaying picons in the oled display looking very cool

[sherry]

thank you.

i have virgin media also and this would be useful as i have had to use my virgin box for terrestrial channels when the weather was really bad there due to the picture being un-watchable with the wind

[Rob van der Does]

Nah, was still there

Sorry, overlooked that

seen a ultimo pic a while back displaying picons in the oled display looking very cool

Yep, the ViX image supports that.

[Ev0]

Sorry, overlooked that


Yep, the ViX image supports that.

How do I get it working with vix ?

[punisher]

im not sure we have the picons yet, can you not copy the ones from vti over and use it on vix, i assume they should still work the same

[Ev0]

im not sure we have the picons yet, can you not copy the ones from vti over and use it on vix, i assume they should still work the same

Good job I backed up the 2942 files then

[Rob van der Does]

How do I get it working with vix ?

Sorry, you lost me there: what do you want to get working?
Picons on OLED?
Try our preliminary set: unzip and FTP icons to \lcd_picon

[Ev0]

Sorry, you lost me there: what do you want to get working?

Oled picons (sorry didn't quote the post propperly to make it clear)

[Ev0]

im not sure we have the picons yet, can you not copy the ones from vti over and use it on vix, i assume they should still work the same

No didn't work