Oliver Schinagl writes:
I'm interested for such information. (I'm looking also for good well supported DVB-S2 device to target multiple satellite)
I've a question for you Olivier. I don't know that brand. Why going to 1 dualtuner board and the octopus. In the same brand you can also use the Cine S2 that could eventually be expended with a dualtuner board for example. What are the limitation?
From what I know, is that the hardware is nearly identical on both setups.
The Cine S2 is an octopus with only 2 connectors (which allows 4 extra tuners) and has 2 onboard tuners, so 6 tuners maximum.
The Octopus is ONLY the bridge chip (in FPGA form strangly in the latest revisions, was the nGene before, driver is the same so maybe they got some IP from micronas to put in the FPGA due to performance/scaling issues?) but has 4 connectors for expansion cards. So you can connect 8
Micronas has nothing to do with the new bridge. nGene is no longer in production and it also lacked inputs and outputs to support more tuners/CIs.
Regards, Ralph