Dreambox- Still Among The Digital Satellite Receiver

Dreambox produced by the German manufacturers' is a device that works on the Linux operating system. Its software was originally developed for DBox2 by the Tux box project and Dream Multimedia. Dreambox is available in various models and all these are categorized into 3 types Terrestrial, Cable and Satellite.

The Dream Multimedia launched a series of models. The dreambox 500s was the smallest receiver which was developed in 2005-2006. But, it has now stopped developing due to the wide availability of Chinese dreambox clones in the market. The DM500 featured 32 MB RAM. There is no specification of flash memory size but it is probably 8 MB. Fake versions of DM500-S have been widely spread and are sold at a very closer price compared to the original one. Because of this, DM500+ came into existence by Dream Multimedia with some changes in order to avoid future fakes. This model has replaced RAM of 32 MB with 96 MB and 8 MB NOR flash with 32 MB of NAND flash.

Dreambox 800 HD is the second most popular dreambox which is the first High Definition receiver of Dream Multimedia in the market and currently it is the best seller of original receiver from Dream. Many failures made DM800 HD a poor build device. Its features include a DVB tuner with single plug-in, flash memory of 64 MiB, processor with the speed of 300 MHz MIPS, RAM size of 256 MiB and SATA 2.5 internally placed in the disk. Dreambox 800 HD also possesses a cable for conversion from DVI to HDMi, one eSATA, an OLED display and two USB 2.0.

Another much more liked dreambox model can be the dreambox HD which is the top range of dreambox. DM 8000 provides multiple High definition HD TV standards such as MPEG4/H.264. There is an excellent in-built device for power supply which has now solved all the problems related to PSU. There is also an inclusion of USB 2 hardware port along with the regular RS232 serial port and Fast Ethernet interface in DM8000 HD. The operating system is the open Linux system which is packaged within an easier to use form.