Mutant 200s or DB 500s ?

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Hi all

I'm considering buying a machine (not interested in dual tuner nor PVR).

The Mutant 200s and Dreambox 500s are both about the same price. The relook machines seem better on paper, but I'm worried about community support.

Is there enough of a community out there yet to make it workthwhile to go Relook?

Thanks for your advice guys
 

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There isn't any Enigma for Mutant and the community doesn't seem that big for Mutant either.

Why not go for the top of the line 400s? it only cost about 100 euro more.

DM500 hardware wise isn't that good, bad streaming due to network card, not so good picture quality due to 8-bit framebuffer....
 

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Likvid said:
There isn't any Enigma for Mutant and the community doesn't seem that big for Mutant either.

Why not go for the top of the line 400s? it only cost about 100 euro more.

DM500 hardware wise isn't that good, bad streaming due to network card, not so good picture quality due to 8-bit framebuffer....

nice info ,
can you please tell me how many bits are the frame buffer of the relook ,and how does its picture quality compare to dreambox 7020 and nokia 9800s
 

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The DB500 price is higher than Relook 200s
These days you will find the DB500Plus (bigger memory)
If you want to buy, it is recomended to buy DB for sure!! all images created are for DB and tested on DB and not for any box.
But all other boxes are manufactured to be able to work with the images which are created especially for DB.

For example, latest Gemini image 4.3, the creator has put in it a protection tool which will let it not work on any box except the genuine DB
 

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Maybe a cubecafe 250s could do it for you, it has better hardware than a dm500 and the community has very nice images and plugins for it. Image quality is very good, closer to a nokia 9800 than a dm500. It's easy to set up and get it to run the most popular cams. You can fit a disk drive aswell, if that matters to you, and the remote can control the basic functions of most tvs around today.
I'm happy with mine, i only wish it had high def.
 
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