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Faster than anything we have seen on any other receiver really.

The Vu Solo 4K has 2 fixed DVB-S2 tuners with the new Full Bandwith Capture (FBC) technology along with 1 port for a pluggable tuner module.

So with a twin tuner module you can do up to 4 tuners on this Solo 4K.

So note that any old MIPS plugins you may use will not work on this model.

We measure a boot time of 32 seconds from power on using the VTI image.

You give up some things on the Solo4K like analogue outputs and a common interface port.

So the 2 FBC tuners can pull in up to 8 transponders providing they are in the same frequency bandpolarisation that is.

So with the two FBC DVB-S2 tuners in the VU Solo 4K reception of up to 8 transponders simultaneously is possible.

So Unicable LNB is an advantage if you wish to take full advantage of FBC.

There is blindscan option as well for you feedhunters but it does not seem to support 4:2:2 feeds not that we expected this.

So if you have both a Solo 4K, HDR supported TV and access to Hispasat maybe worth a try.

We do not know if it works as we do not have access to that satellite.

We did feel that Solo 4K was a bit more particular than the Vu Duo2 when it came to having to point at the receiver for commands to be received.

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You can watch live tv on this display with the MiniTV option but honestly we did not see the point of this.

The Solo 4K offer 1 CI slot along with 2 internal card readers.

There is also a front USB 2.0 port useful for firmware upgrading.

Easy as that. We have moved our Vu Duo2 hard driver into the Solo 4K and of course previous recordings work fine.

We have to say that we do feel there is more noise from the hard drive now in the Solo 4K than when it was inside the Vu Duo 2 but not really so much that it is an issue.

Having seen receiver boards for many years we really notice how much more simple they have become.

These are our favorites right now and provide a good experience.

After our review there is now also an image from the OpenATV team.

Often we have found that ARM based receivers had the advantage over Mips when it comes to picture quality.

Perhaps the difference it is most noticeable on SD channels.

If you do not have an UHD TV you can of course still watch the UHD channels it will just be scaled down.