Best twin tuner for a newbie to this.

[Rob van der Does]

Giga Quad supports 1080p natively in the chip/drivers.

That applies to the other boxes as well.

[Sicilian]

That applies to the other boxes as well.

It does not, hence why VU+ or Xtrend have never had a native 1080p setting only the new range of BCM chips acually natively support 1080p.

[Rob van der Does]

See e.g. the attached datasheet of the chipset used for the UNO & Ultimo; it supports H.264/AVC Main and High Profile to Level 4.1, which means 1080p.

[Sicilian]

See e.g. the attached datasheet of the chipset used for the UNO & Ultimo; it supports H.264/AVC Main and High Profile to Level 4.1, which means 1080p.

Its only for media playback, not HDTV. Speak to VU+ engineers, they will explain in full tech terms If they did dont you think they would have implemented 1080p in the drivers?

[Rob van der Does]

Its only for media playback, not HDTV.

Mediaplayback uses the same chipset as for TV-playback.
And the setting isn't there because there is no 1080p HDTV-transmission. And even if there was, there's no tuner that can handle that. So as there's no 1080p input, there's no reason whatsoever to have 1080p output: any TV is perfectly capable of handling that.
And on mediaplayback you may have 1080p material, so than it is nice to output that as well.

[Sicilian]

Mediaplayback uses the same chipset as for TV-playback.
And the setting isn't there because there is no 1080p HDTV-transmission. And even if there was, there's no tuner that can handle that. So as there's no 1080p input, there's no reason whatsoever to have 1080p output: any TV is perfectly capable of handling that.
And on mediaplayback you may have 1080p material, so than it is nice to output that as well.

Like I said, contact VU+ drivers engineer's, they will explain. For now we will agree to disagree.

root@vuultimo:/proc/stb/video# cat videomode_50hz_choices
pal ntsc 480i 576i 480p 576p 720p50 720p 1080i 1080i50 
root@vuultimo:/proc/stb/video# cat videomode_60hz_choices
pal ntsc 480i 576i 480p 576p 720p50 720p 1080i 1080i50
root@vuultimo:/proc/stb/video#

[Sicilian]

root@vuultimo:/proc/stb/video# cat videomode_choices
pal ntsc 480i 576i 1080i 1080p 720p 480p 1080i50 1080p24 1080p25 1080p30 1250i50 720p24 720p50 576p 1440x240 1440x288_50 1366x768 1366x768_50 640x480 800x600 1024x768 1280x768 1280x720_50 1280x720 1280x720_ReducedBlank

1080p 24/25/30 for media playback.

Giga Quad is 1080p 50/60

[Rob van der Does]

root@vuultimo:/proc/stb/video# cat videomode_choices
pal ntsc 480i 576i 1080i 1080p 720p 480p 1080i50 1080p24 1080p25 1080p30 1250i50 720p24 720p50 576p 1440x240 1440x288_50 1366x768 1366x768_50 640x480 800x600 1024x768 1280x768 1280x720_50 1280x720 1280x720_ReducedBlank

1080p 24/25/30 for media playback.

Ahh, see?

[CODE]root@vuultimo:/proc/stb/video# cat videomode_choices
Giga Quad is 1080p 50/60

Yep, OK. And how much material is available in 1080P 50/60?

[Sicilian]

Ahh, see?



Yep, OK. And how much material is available in 1080P 50/60?

None, it upscales, hopefully has good an some 1080p non-linux boxes currently available.

[Rob van der Does]

None, it upscales, hopefully has good an some 1080p non-linux boxes currently available.

That will have to be seen. So far the best upscalers are TV's, but who knows?

Anyway; IMHO letting a box do video contents upscaling (especially to those values) seems not done to me. Why would you want to do that? The result can't possibly be better than when set input = output (after all that's why Autoresolution has been made).

[Hotchef]

I have the cash for the giga blue quad.


But so much money to handle if I can not get my head around Linux

I can't find much info in, was hoping for a quick you tube video to show it in action

Just seen on eBay a fully operation vu+ duo with subs which is tempting too

A Unconfident way out.

[judge]

I have the cash for the giga blue quad.


But so much money to handle if I can not get my head around Linux

I can't find much info in, was hoping for a quick you tube video to show it in action

Just seen on eBay a fully operation vu+ duo with subs which is tempting too

A Unconfident way out.

I'd never buy a box with 'subs' unless it's an official box from an official provider like Sky.
If you do, you won't get any help with those extras here.

[Hotchef]

Not relevant here , on this thread maybe,but mentioned alot. Vic image? I see you can choose your image. Where can I see how they are different

[Stanman]

If you are confident around a PC, than you will be able to handle Linux on a STB box and I would not worry too much about it.

[Rob van der Does]

Giga Quad supports 1080p natively in the chip/drivers. @ £339 its a no brainer imo for the spec you get.

I'd 100% defo consider the Giga Quad, its the most powerful Linux box out there right now also the only one that is 1080p.

ET9200 has 1080p/30

Only for media playback.

Same as the VU's have from the beginning.

That applies to the other boxes as well.

It does not, hence why VU+ or Xtrend have never had a native 1080p setting only the new range of BCM chips acually natively support 1080p.

Its only for media playback, not HDTV. Speak to VU+ engineers, they will explain in full tech terms If they did dont you think they would have implemented 1080p in the drivers?

I presume you checked the latest ViX-builds and seen that 1080p24/25/30 is indeed 'natively' supported by the chipsets used by VU & Xtrend?