LyngBox

[wejones]

Has anyone else seen advertising for the new Lyngbox. It appears to be marketed by Lyngsat, but the new box combines DVB-S2 with DVB-T and a Hard Drive. You can watch Standard DVB and HDTV! So one could watch local digital television AND FTA Satellite on the same device. You could even record. My only question is this: While this is great for the Euro Market--Will it work in the North America Market? Does Europe use the same DVB-T system as North America?

Of course DVB-T standard is not used in the US, so all it would be good for is satellite for people in the US.
I think I'd wait to see if they provide an ATSC card for it, unless the price is very low.

[Sadoun]

Of course DVB-T standard is not used in the US, so all it would be good for is satellite for people in the US.
I think I'd wait to see if they provide an ATSC card for it, unless the price is very low.

I agree with you. Right now the USA does not support DVB-T (I wish we did ). ATSC is the USA standard and we seems to be stuck with it.

Also, I am not sure we can use DBS-S2 yet here for consumer FTA channels.

[T4Runner]

Since this STB says"> Built-in tuners for both satellite TV (DVB-S/DVB-S2) and terrestrial TV (DVB-T) "; here's what I found:


From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


DVB-S is the original Digital Video Broadcasting forward error coding and modulation standard for satellite television and dates from 1995. It is used via satellites serving every continent of the world. DVB-S is used in both MCPC and SCPC modes for broadcast network feeds, as well as for direct broadcast satellite services like Sky TV (UK) via Astra in Europe, Dish Network in the U.S., and Bell ExpressVu in Canada. The transport stream delivered by DVB-S is mandated as MPEG-2.
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DVB-S2


One of the first DVB-S2 tuner cards.


DVB-S2 is an improved and updated specification to replace the DVB-S standard, ratified by ETSI in March 2005. Today the main use for this new standard is the distribution of HDTV, while the original standard was mainly applied to SDTV services. The development of DVB-S2 coincided with the introduction of HDTV and H.264 (MPEG-4) video codecs.
The authors claim that the DVB-S2 performance gain over DVB-S is around 30%, when the addition of improvements in the video compression are added, a (MPEG-4) HDTV service can now be delivered in the same capacity that supported an early DVB-S-MPEG-2 SDTV service, only a decade before.

[T4Runner]

I think after looking a little closer, this receiver is not going to be under $200 like most of the sat receivers available today. It has two tuners and a 160Gb harddrive.

Besides that it has a HDMI output and with the hard drive isn't there some propriatary issue about recording through a HDMI output or something? My TV has the HDMI output, but none of my other cheap electronic equipment does.

[wejones]

As I said above, it seems a waste for anyone in the US to buy a receiver that is aimed at the European market.

However, there is a chance that this is just a computer, and the spare slot for an additional tuner, might accept a generic ATSC tuner, such as an Air2PC or Twinhan, or similar card. Although to do so, I assume that the receiver would have to be upgraded with drivers for any add-on card. If, however, they do allow use of generic tuner cards, then despite the likely high cost, this could well be a powerful box. However until we see just what it can do, I sure wouldn't invest in one.
I have this hope, that the software for this thing will also be open archetecture, so that programmers can write plugins, etc, but that is probably just wishful thinking. Definately something to watch though, particularly after they get their forums going. Ie their web page, http://www.lyngbox.com/ has a button for forums, but it doesn't work yet. Once the forum thing starts to function, I think we'll be able to see what it is capable of.