Unibox is a

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and

terrestrial Terrestrial refers to things related to land or the planet Earth. Terrestrial may also refer to: * Terrestrial animal, an animal that lives on land opposed to living in water, or sometimes an animal that lives on or near the ground, as opposed to ...

digital receiver (

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). It has been distributed widely for use with

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. It also enables the receiver to store digital copies of

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TS on internal harddisk or networked filesystems.

Linux on the Uni-box

Unibox was based on the

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operating system. Originally Unibox was developed in Korea and sold in

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, CIS, the Middle East and so on. Enthusiast groups in all over the world have developed localized software versions for the Unibox.

Unibox models

There have been a number of different models of Unibox available. The numbers are suffixed with -S for Satellite, -T for Terrestrial and -C for Cable:

UD-Combo

This is essentially a full high definition(1080p) version of the UD Combo(S2+T) PVR, a 450 MHz MIPS processor, 32MB of Flash memory, 256MB of

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. It also features one

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, two

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, one e-SATA and one 10/100 Mbit/s

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interfaces. It has a

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display.

UD-1000HD(180 x 145 x 40)

This is full high definition(1080p)

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PVR. It also features one

, two

, one 10/100 Mbit/s

interfaces. It has and touchpad on front.

UD-1100HD(180 x 145 x 40)

This is essentially a full high definition(1080p) version of the UD-1000HD(S2/T/C)

PVR, a 450 MHz MIPS processor, 32MB of Flash memory, 256MB of

. It also features one

, one

2.0, one 10/100 Mbit/s

interfaces. It has and touchpad on front. The main differences of the UD-1100HD compared to the UD-1000HD are one USB port.

UD-2000HD(280 x 180 x 58)

This is full high definition(1080p)

PVR. It supports one fixed tuner and one detachable tuner module(S2,T,C). It also features one

, two

, one eSATA, two Common Interface, two Smart card, one Optical and one 10/100 Mbit/s

interfaces.

Plug-ins

There are also many 3rd party plugins available. Plugins such as Weather forecast, YouTube,

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chatting, WebCam, youporn, torrent are available. In addition, unofficial third-party conditional access software modules ( CAMs or emulatorsEmuzone
/ref>) are widely circulated on the Internet that emulate the CA systems developed by NDS (VideoGuard), Irdeto,

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Nagravision Nagravision (or Nagra Kudelski or simply Nagra) is a company of the Kudelski Group that develops conditional access systems for digital cable and satellite television. The name is also used for their main products, the Nagravision encryption syste ...

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and other proprietary vendors. Some Uni-box owners use these softcams in conjunction with card sharing software to access pay TV services without a subscription card inserted in every connected box. This practice may be illegal in some jurisdictions and third-party software for this purpose is neither officially endorsed nor supported by UNIDIS and voids the official warranty.

References

External links

Linux DVB API

ST Linux

DVB

ETSI
{{Home theater PC (application software) Satellite television Set-top box Television technology Digital video recorders Linux-based devices

Linux on the Uni-box

Unibox models

UD-Combo

UD-1000HD(180 x 145 x 40)

UD-1100HD(180 x 145 x 40)

UD-2000HD(280 x 180 x 58)

Plug-ins

See also

References

External links