VU+ Duo2

the sponsor will know exactly we should hear from them soon

Its official new date around the end of the month

It would be good to know what exactly this issue is??

Is the only difference between the European stock and the Official Uk stock going to be that the Uk stock will have the new remote in the box instead of a voucher to claim it? Because if that's all it is I would rather have the Duo2 with the old style remote sitting in my house now along with the voucher to claim the new style when it is available rather than sitting with nothing. Plus side of the remote voucher is that you will eventually end up with two remotes. Bonus! lol

Part of the problem ( and this is just my personal opinion not that of any team etc ), but in my opinion Vu went wrong by deciding to forgo their established in-house beta team in favour of just pushing the receiver onto a select few yes men who would tell them exactly what they wanted to hear without pointing out potential problems.

you just have to see the Ultimo, the beta team found several issues pre-release that meant Vu had redesign the hardware before general release, yes this meant a slight delay to the launch but it meant the receiver went out fully functioning, with the Duo2 on the other hand they have in my opinion cut way to many corners.

first of all the LCD uses a third party plugin rather that being driven by drivers, it also uses 10% of the available processing power every ten seconds just for the LCD. not to mention the fact that they have already issues a bootloader update before the thing goes on general release any where outside of Germany.

and before people start moaning no i am not a member of that in-house beta team but i do know 4 of the 6 members of the team.

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first of all the LCD uses a third party plugin rather that being driven by drivers, it also uses 10% of the available processing power every ten seconds

How can it possibly use % every 10 seconds , why every 10 seconds is it getting ecm picons cant see that being true spiking every 10 seconds to display surely it will have a consistant cpu draw and a possible spike on picon change :waaaht:

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How can it possibly use % every 10 seconds , why every 10 seconds is it getting ecm picons cant see that being true spiking every 10 seconds to display surely it will have a consistant cpu draw and a possible spike on picon change :waaaht:

Because it's not a true LCD in that it does not display its data as pixels but can only display data in the form of images, images which have to built and refreshed constantly to be displayed on the LCD.

I forget the format but it's something like .mvi images, the plugin LCD4Linux builds this image then pushes it to the LCD to be displayed over and over and over again, this is a hugely memory intensive process.

Im starting to change my mind about a duo2 now always felt the screen was a gimik more than useful pitty the solo2 just doesn't have the extra ram although doesnt seem to need it

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Im starting to change my mind about a duo2 now always felt the screen was a gimik more than useful pitty the solo2 just doesn't have the extra ram although doesnt seem to need it

I'm not trying to put you off buying one but my point was that such a important feature should have been handled by the drivers rather than relying on a third party plugin and for me it's just one in a long line of corners that Vu have cut over the years and with every new release they seem to get worse at it.

No doubt this will be a hugely popular machine for Vu+ but it's a worrying trend that they seem to be forgoing proper Quality control in favour of letting the end user find and report issues, why do you think ViX initially decided not to release a Solo2 image ??.

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It would be good to know what exactly this issue is??

Is the only difference between the European stock and the Official Uk stock going to be that the Uk stock will have the new remote in the box instead of a voucher to claim it? Because if that's all it is I would rather have the Duo2 with the old style remote sitting in my house now along with the voucher to claim the new style when it is available rather than sitting with nothing. Plus side of the remote voucher is that you will eventually end up with two remotes. Bonus! lol

Official uk stock also comes in a "premium box" from what i've read.

So maybe the Chrome stickers to make the box "premium" is where the holdup is lol.

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Do we get a "deliver on time or your order is free guarantee" lol!

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Update : UK stock is now due for Tues 23rd/ Weds 24th July.

yes but what year?????? :waaaht:

im like a child waiting on santa lol

Me too :))

Patience!! the wait makes it more desirable
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Patience!! the wait makes it more desirable
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Oh yes but you can wait too long and then loose the edge.lol