Device Profile: Dreambox DM7000 -- an open TV hacker's paradise
The Dreambox DM7000 from Dream-Multimedia-Tv (DMM) is a $395 Linux-based digital radio and digital TV (DVB) satellite (or cable) receiver with digital video recorder (DVR) functions and PC connectivity. It is implemented using IBM's STB04500 set-top box chipset, which provides the necessary DVB functions like transport stream demultiplexing and MPEG2 decoding inexpensively.
The DM7000 features a Common Interface (CI) slot with the same form-factor as PCMCIA (but not the same handling) for conditional access (CA) modules, enabling reception of clear and encoded ASTRA and EUTELSAT digital video broadcasts. It includes a connector for an internal hard disk, a compact flash reader, as well as a good on-screen display as well as remote control. The actual device's open-source nature has resulted within availability associated with dozens associated with plugins, through various CA modules in order to games as well as installation helpers.
The actual on-screen display menu includes:
* Info menu
* Games menu (Snake as well as Tetris included)
* File menu (manage nearby file)
* Setup menu
* Channels (automatic search, manual search)
* Satellite Channels
* Channels -- Satellites -- Reduced Noise Block-downconvertor (LNB)
* Network (set up LAN)
* On-screen display settings
* LCD
* Remote control
* Video
* Skin
* Language
* Timer
* Difficult disk
* Common
* Firmware upgrade
* Electronic plan guide
What's inside?
The actual Dreambox DM7000 operates upon a good IBM STB Chip Pallas Pro processor clocked from 250 MHz for 350 million instructions per second (MIPs). This has 64MB associated with RAM, as well as boots through 8MB associated with internal flash memory. This may shop video upon a good internal difficult drive (not really included),
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Device Profile Dreambox DM7000 an open TV hacker's
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