what exactly is a dreambox?

[sittingduck]

can anyone tell me in easy to understand jargon what exactly a dreambox is?
I had two eurovox ex500 pvr which worked great, but i have now moved to a cable free area, currently on freeview but would like something better,
a brief explanation of what it does, what i could recieve on a dreambox sat setup. what eqt. i would need to buy etc would be very helpfull. thx

[firestorm]

a dreambox is a linux based pc with a sat/cable tunner it looks like a normal stb but inside its different.You can load diffrent images on it or if you are very clever even make your own.A dreambox is capable of loading software cam s
which open channels instead of buying hardware cam s but at the moment they do not open very mutch.But because its a linux base pc it is capble of a lot more ways to open channels that cant be talked about here try googleing cardsharing for mor info on this.