Is the duo2 worth the extra£££

If your only after a twin tuner then why not consider something like a Solo2 or similar, The original Duo was a fantastic bit of kit in its time but as with any technology things have moved on considerably

well every year there is a new kid of piece.

get vu zero solo 2.

Little debate on this one.

If you're contemplating spending £240 and £300 doesn't bust a gut then go for the Duo2 everytime. In fact if you only have £240 at present then would suggest you find the extra to fund the Duo2.

The Solo2 is a fixed tuner DVB S2 receiver and cannot match the flexibility/future proof of the Duo2 going forward.

The Solo2 is/was a great receiver in it 's own right but it's getting a little old now. At current market prices no reason not to go for the Duo2.

If you have a jailbroken ATV2 then you will still probably want XBMC. Teams such as Blackhole are now bringing out images with XBMC enabled. It's early beta days but XBMC is the way forward.

Don't bother with the original Duo, it's an old machine and it's pretty much had it's day. The latest XBMC enabled Blackhole images will not work on it.

The Duo is 5 years old now and really is showing it's age now.

The Duo2 is only 2 years old and only just starting to show it's hand, the cpu has more than 3x the power of the original Duo, it has 5x the amount of ram, and 4x the amount of flash space, pluggable tuners so you have the option of sat, terrestrial / cable, and it can do hardware transcoding. It also supports blindscan and as mentioned now XBMC (kodi) is available too (in beta at the moment but it will get more stable as time goes on).

In short yes the Duo2 is well worth the extra over the original duo.

As for solo2 it's a great box in it's own right, but at current prices the Duo2 is well worth the little bit extra that it costs.

Just to help you out even more haha have a look at the technomate 3t triple tuner, 1.3ghz cpu loads of memory etc only £189