AMIKO ALIEN 2 HDTV TWIN TUNER ENIGMA 2

[the man]

mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

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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:

I thought as much, ties in with what I read elsewhere about Enigma 2 being in Alpha stage on these recivers and sparc not as flexible or functional as Enigma2. So these are another work in progress or potentially good reciever..depending on software support. I havent seen any decent teams on the Enigma 2 scene producing anything for this reciever either..as it's an STI chipset not broadcom theres probably driver issues to iron out and hardware comaptibility stuff to sort out to make it E2 functional...

[Manic01]

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

[the man]

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

[Manic01]

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

[portbhoy]

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.

[RuberDuck]

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

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.

[RuberDuck]

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

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.

[portbhoy]

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.

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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

[portbhoy]

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.

[nuku24]

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.

[dave-h]

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

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

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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.

[dave-h]

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.