Vu+ Ultimo - mini review

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Il contient :
- Le Vu+ Ultimo
- Une télécommande universelle réversible
- Un câble HDMI
- Un câble d'alimentation
- Un câble de rebouclage
- Un stick wifi
- Câble de connexion pour HDD
- Visserie et tampons pour HDD 2.5 & 3.5
- 1 Quick start guide
- 1 manuel d'utilisation










The facade is beautiful with a screen even bigger than the 8000.
It supports animations, etc ... picons it will take a bit to be able to fully exploit but it's promising.

Digression: The blue LED strip Jacky's my side, I like it when flash
For those interested in this detail is supplied on the 12v outlet of the fan so it shuts off when I put the device in standby.
With fancontrol2 I can even adjust the intensity of light through the parameters of voltage



The buttons are tactile and light the most beautiful effect!
(With a more integrated plugin to manage)



the remote




Nothing to say on the grip, it also fits comfortably in the hand and leaves an impression of robustness.
For cons, the flexibility of the keys is poor, sometimes you need to repeatedly press a button to send a command.
Large fingers will also be in trouble because the keys are relatively close and small, especially in the upper part of the remote.

Inn***tion is the reverse side and again nothing to say this is useful for certain extensions: epg search, web browser, mail etc ...
anything that asks typing.

The manufacturer has thought of everything since the keypad locks automatically when you press a key on the other side of the telco.
Alternatively, you can lock / unlock by pressing for this purpose, so no risk of incorrect manipulation
SOFTWARE LISTING:

Not too much interest to test anything with the official image so we used the blackhole and VTI.
Clearly, blackhole has a device for longer because we have not encountered any trouble unlike the VTI 4.0 that did not allow for example to loop back satellite tuners, mismanagement vfd ...

The imperfections of the first image will surely be corrected but in the meantime, the blackhole is much better.





First point, the boot is fast despite the size of images that are almost 100 mo!

After that, the rest is the same ilk, and zapping menu navigation very fast installation of extensions idem.
In short the camera is very responsive at all levels.

The internal memory is huge, capture after installing a ton of plugins:




WEB BROWSER

I must admit that so far I thought this plugin as a gimmick without much interest.
I had the opportunity to test it on 8000 but bugait lot and had to use a keyboard to use it more.

This extension is now integrated into many images to view + so I stopped a few minutes on it.
The first benefit is obviously to have the keypad on the remote control but also to use a machine that has the resources to run the plugin pretty quickly.





Records:

Launched eight simultaneous recordings and no worries encountered.




Reading all the records without problems







Playback of multimedia content

Reading test mp3 and photos on the internal HDD:






Test video playback in the popcorn C-200 via the network:




Not the slightest twitch observed.
All files tested were read without problems (avi, mkv, mp4 and m2ts).

External DVD drive:

For those wishing to connect an external DVD drive, no worries.
Nothing to install (the DVD player is integrated into the main image), connect the drive and reboot and it is directly recognized and functional.




You slide your DVD playback is provided immediately:






CONCLUSION:

Cons:

- We would have liked the wifi is built rather than having a stick wlan but ...
- The remote control buttons that are sometimes a bit stubborn

Goodies:

- The quality and finish, the unit is lovely (although it is subjective).
- The big screen VFD front
- The power and speed of the machine
- And as usual unbeatable value for money.


That, I think I did a fairly comprehensive tour of the beast.
After this test with three tuners sat, we followed a dual tuner sat config + tuner hybridization using TNT (ac3 + OK).
Not a single problem.

This machine should meet with a success at least as important as the DM 8000 to its output.
In comparison with the latter, it lacks a tuner and the ability to add an internal drive.
As against it is stronger and a much lower price.




VU+ ULTIMO Triple Linux HDTV Receiver PVR ready

The Vu+ Ultimo comes with 2 x DVB-S/S2 Satellite Tuners fitted as standard.

The Vu+ Ultimo also has an additional 3rd plug and play tuner slot for a DVB-S2, DVB-C or DVB-T Tuner.

Vu+ Ultimo Main features
400 Mhz processor (BCM 7413)
10/100 MBit compatible Ethernet Interface
HDMI Connection
1 Fixed DVB-S/S2 tuner and 2 x Plug & Play tuner DVB-S2/C/T
WIFI USB dongle 300 Mb
Plug & Play support for 2.5" and 3.5" SATA hard drive
Big graphic display 256x64 pixel VFD

Technical Data:


400MHz MIPS processor (BCM7413)
1GB Flash
512MB Ram

Front Panel2 x Smart Card slot
2 x Common Interface
1 x USB 2.0
Key 5 buttons (standby, volume + / -, Ch + / -)
Large Graphic VFD display type (256 × 64) pixels

Rear Panel1 x Fixed Tuner, 2 x Pluggable Tuner Slots (DVB-S2/C/T)
1 x TV Scart Connection
1 x RCA Video output (composite)
Video output (component) YPbPr
1 x HDMI Video / Audio output (digital)
2 x RCA Audio output (analogue)
Audio output (digital) standard optical (SPDIF)
2 x USB 2.0 goldwafers.com
1 x Ethernet
1 x RS 232
FAN Control Automatic
1 x e-SATA

PowerMain range 100-250/50-60 V / HZ
Power consumtion
(Max / type. Operation / standby) 60/25/1 W

RFRF range 47-864 MHz
FEC, de-multiplexed DVB-S2 / DVB-C / DVB-T standard

VideoCCIR 601 video resolution (720 × 576 lines), 576p, 720p, 1080i
Video decoding MPEG-2, MPEG-4 compatible
Input data rate 2-45 Msymb / s
S / N> 53dB

AudioDecoding AC3, MPEG-4 (AAC-HE), MPEG 1, Layer 1,2 and 3
Sampling rate 32/4.1/48KHz
S / N> 65dB

LNBLNB supply (Hor / vert.) 14/18, max. 400 V / mA
Control 22KHz signal, ToneBurst, DiSEqC 1.0/1.1/1.2, USAL

GeneralDimensions (WxHxD) 380 x 60 x 290mm
Weight 3.0 Kg
Universal Remote Remote / QWERTY keyboard

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