Thinking of getting a gigablue

[thejoker]

Should I get a gigablue or vu solo? Pity the gigablue did not have space for internal hdd or I would have bought it. I'm definitely considering getting a blue but only because VIX in now supported.

But is the box just as good as the vu solo, i.e tuner quality, processor, boot times, etc...

[Mr. Mister]

Hi buddy.. Yes it is.. I got a Gigiblue 800SE last week.. and i really like it..

I have an external HDD connected to it.. and its working perfectly..

Also.. You can NOT put an internall HDD in a solo.. It will also have to be an external USB HDD..

[portbhoy]

I got a UE 2 weeks ago and with the Vix image on I can't fault it either, great wee piece of kit.

[Sicilian]

I've got both for testing here, SE & UE, cant fault it and cheaper than Solo ViX runs just as goods on the Gigablue as it does on the VU+

[portbhoy]

I said the same thing on another forum and got slated, don't think the person knew what they where on about

[Maxwell]

I said the same thing on another forum and got slated, don't think the person knew what they where on about

Name and shame the username

[portbhoy]

I'll save their blushes

[Larry-G]

I'll save their blushes

LMFAO I wont though.

p.s RuberDuck is me.

AMIKO ALIEN 2 HDTV TWIN TUNER ENIGMA 2
AMIKO ALIEN 2 HDTV TWIN TUNER ENIGMA 2 FOR QBOX MINI HD BLADE MEDIA dreambox | eBay

looks good ?
Amiko_SHD-8900_Alien_Nebula_v1.mp4 - YouTube

I am not 100% sure about these and the maketing hype mentioning the Qbox mini does not give me enough faith to part with cash for one, I did read its not full Enigma2 its a variant from the Sparc or what ever its called.

as i thought i just read this on another forum:

Spark side works ok from what I hear, E2 needs work.
This is feedback from reliable sources.
Triple tuner can be had for aprrox £150 ish

if vix 2.4 worked on it id take a punt , intrestting box

I think open pli works.
It's not broadcom so be wary as its older sti chip

It's buggy as hell I've owned one Sparks is like having an openbox channel browsing etc is slow and clunky if you have been used to VU, Dream and pluggins like cross epg just don't function on it. But the main point has been already said it's an older sti chip.

never gona happen, this receiver is not broadcom based and as a result it cant run a native E2 image unless it is rebuilt from the ground up and compiled for this processor with specific driver support etc.

at the moment any E2 image you find for these is nothing more than a port. I can say this now ViX would not touch these with a bargepole.

look towards the GigaBlue or Venton Unibox range of receivers rather than this. the giga and ventons are all broadcom based and already have support from the OE-Alliance of which ViX is a member.

in fact if you look at the ventons they all HD1, HD2, HD3 run the exact same broadcom chip as the Vu Uno and Ultimo.

I have a gigablue HD800UE and although the chipset is slightly older than the duo with the vix image on it (comes pre loaded from world of sat) in everyday use I can't really tell the difference between my duo and this box.

Apart from the 2 minute boot up it takes from a deep sleep, It's ok from standby but from cold its worse than the DM800 and that runs the same BCM chipset and CPU

Yep it's slow to boot but as I said once it's up and running it runs sweet as a nut and it's a good budget alternative to clones.

Does anyone know how good the picture quality is?I know receivers with sti processors produce better pictures and I think the amiko has sti7169 processor.

Don't know whether it's Broadcom processors or enigma 2 software itself,I think pic quality is not as good in enigma 2 receivers.I have the vu+ duo,xtrend et6000 and dm800se clone,dm800se pic is the best out of all 3 boxes but it still does not compare to my old kathrein ufs 910 which uses sti processor.I heard the spiderbox receivers have excellent pq as well and they use sti processor.

If anyone has this receiver,could they let us know how the picture quality is.

The GB800 SE/UE have the same 333MHz CPU as a Vu+ Solo, not the older 300MHz one found dm800s.

My bad your right it just makes the DM800 look even better slower CPU and still boots faster, I got shut of mine because it was painfully slow hopefully the new Quad with the revised chipset should bring it up to speed with other manufacturers no pun intended.

Boot times don't bother me personally (whether it be a satbox, PC, Smartphone, Tablet, BD Player, media streamer etc) as long as it does its job once booted.

Looking forward to the Quad though, hopefully that 1.3GHz CPU will allow video transcoding (like the Duo/Solo 2 are promising with same chipset) and make streaming over the net much less faff.

[judge]

the funniest thing about this is your username mate, RuberDuck?

[Larry-G]

the funniest thing about this is your username mate, RuberDuck?

Thats just my little tribute to the old AM CB radio. I had one as a kid in the early 80's

[judge]

Thats just my little tribute to the old AM CB radio. I had one as a kid in the early 80's

Ha, had one of those too, can't remember my handle though...

[Larry-G]

Ha, had one of those too, can't remember my handle though...

oh i'm a radio nut mate, got all kinds of kit stashed away in my loft from CB to HAM radio to good old scanners and the like.

[portbhoy]

Yep that's the one Another Dreambox forever nut, don't get me wrong I liked dreambox but it's time to move on and try something else. And as you can see from my post about the Alien I like to try a few boxes

[Dave-H]

I said the same thing on another forum and got slated, don't think the person knew what they where on about

Fair bit of that about WRT Gigablue on other fora.

My favourite being, it's another DM800 clone in all but name rofl.



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[Sicilian]

Fair bit of that about WRT Gigablue on other fora.

My favourite being, it's another DM800 clone in all but name rofl.



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The Gigablue's are NOT DM800 clones, they user their own images and their own drivers legally!