Upgrade but to what???

Quote from biggest1d

Hi all, I'm upgrading my box and not sure what to buy. My short list is a
Dreambox 7020 v2. Or
VU+ ultimo
I use a motorised dish setup and can't make up my mind. Any help in choosing which one or are their any receivers I have forgot which are to a high spec.

Both receivers you've mentioned are now old spec.

Take a look at the following: -

http://www.world-of-satellite.…-Enigma-2-HD-Receiver-PVR

http://www.world-of-satellite.co.uk/index.php?route=product/search&filter_name=hd2400

http://www.world-of-satellite.…clebox-Linux-HD-Receivers
http://www.world-of-satellite.co.uk/index.php?route=product/search&filter_name=duo2

Quote from biggest1d

Now I am confused....never heard of most of them. I thought DM & VU led the way.
What would you recommend for a motorised system which is easy to use for the wife and won't be useless within the a year or two,

All posted above are good quality and well supported receivers, all are wife friendly using OpenViX images.

How many tuners do you require? 1, 2 and the option to expand to more?

Buy an wetek... You spend 15 per cent of your budget and have a lot of enterteinement granted...

Quote from biggest1d

2 turners is fine, my real issue is support but they all sound good. Last question, if it was your money, what would you buy from the list above?

You won't go far wrong with the Mutant HD2400 http://www.world-of-satellite.co.uk/index.php?route=product/search&filter_name=hd2400

Anything you want just about

Can't for the life of me think why you would go for a Mutant over a Duo2? £279 for a Duo2 is a no brainer.

Dreambox and VU+ are by far and away the best brands and support is what it's all about. All other brands tend to be fly by nights and come and go. Both of these however have been around for years and will be to come.

If you want peace of mind and support VU+ is top of the tree.

Yes you're right the VU+ is better. It's got massive support, image support from a wide number of teams and has a worldwide user support base. The spec is far too long to list but suffice to say in a nutshell the Duo2 a top of the range receiver and bar the new Dreambox is the best machine out there.

My own personal view on this is Vu+ are quality no doubt about it but to limit its top of the range receiver by just having 2 x P&P modules is stupidity in itself other manufacturers namely Xtrend sussed this a while ago by having 4 x P&P tuner modules on its top end receivers for true Mix & Match possibilites, The Mutant 2400 and the LX3 before it had the same foresight.

Even Gigablue although they used 2 fixed on the Quad and Quad+ they still had 2 x Plug & Play which for me is a requirement i needed 3 x DVB-S2 and at least 1 X DVB-C/T/T2 something which is impossible on any current VU+ model, Yes they have a very broad selection of images for VU but how many times does the average user actually swap images, They may try a few to get a feel for them but in the end they settle on one which is normally one of the OE Alliance spin offs.

I've recently upgraded from a vu duo to a vu duo2 and it's amazing. The difference in picture quality is chalk and cheese! Even on sd channels but obviously the hd shows up more. I'm not sure exactly why as the old vu duo was 1080i but I thought the picture was better on 720p with my tv upscaling to 1080P. The new duo2 is 1080p but as far as I can tell the hd picture from sats is 1080i so presume the duo2 converts to 1080p. I went for a twin s2 tuner and a single T2 freeview hd tuner as though my tv has freeview it's not hd. This means I can get all the freeview hd channels through my normal ariel (if the sat goes down with snow!). You could have 2 twin s2 tuners (4 total) though i've no idea why anyone would need this many tuners.
The new duo2 is also a lot faster than the old duo and no longer needs a swap file set up as it's got plenty of internal memory. You can stream both from the web and to your own device away from home from the duo2.
I got mine through World of Satellite who delivered next day for a great price (Not on back handers, honest).
I don't think you can go wrong with the duo2, if there's a better box for the money i'd be surprised.

Only use Vu myself but love the hdmi input option on the Mutant receiver, must look into that.