LyngBox, the ultimate satellite receiver box, to debut this Friday

Those Swedes are a crafty bunch -- what would come next in the progression of Volvo, IKEA, and a commercial darknet, Relakks? Logically this would have to be the LyngBox, the ultimate satellite reciever box. Set to debut at the IBC show in Amsterdam this Friday, the LyngBox will be any satellite geek's dream device. As the company's site explains, a conventional satellite receiver is static and it's often difficult to add new channels, but the LyngBox, using an internet connection, will update itself to install and subsequently update all available channels (including free-to-air channels) through the authoritative LyngSat website. It will receive DVB-S2 and well as terrestrial DVB-T signals, and supports HDTV (720p and 1080i), H.264/MPEG-4 AVC and MPEG-2, 4:3 and 16:9 aspect ratios. You can even hook up an external DVD player to the LyngBox, or perhaps throw on an additional pay-TV card to suit your fancies. Oh yeah, and the LyngBox's got a 160GB drive to turn this puppy into a PVR as well. No word on pricing or availability date as of yet, but perhaps you Euros can get some more details at IBC for us?

[Via Really Rocket Science, thanks Tushko]

[Ben @ Sep 6th 2006 11:11PM]

I read: LynchBox

[bobby @ Sep 6th 2006 11:14PM]

I want one if it works with directv

[Timothy @ Sep 6th 2006 11:18PM]

This looks like an awesome PVR! If it is as good as it looks to be, allows you to view your videos via ethernet from your computer and doesn't cost a fortune it will definitely be on my shopping list - although, if Apple releases a PVR as rumored, then it may have a bit of competition.

[Thrall @ Sep 6th 2006 11:19PM]

I love FTA satellite (the legal stuff). I love hunting for free legal channels.

This is probably what the FTA hacking community has wanted, it can do mpeg4 so it will be able to crack dishnetwork encryption. All current FTA receivers are down (with a few exceptions). So I'm sure hackers will get their hands on it.

[Roupen N. @ Sep 6th 2006 11:25PM]

Sounds like SlingBox ;-)

[alex @ Sep 6th 2006 11:30PM]

I read: Lyingbox

[dating service @ Sep 7th 2006 12:08AM]

Nice PVR. Like the auto-update features.

Yeah I read lying box at first too. What does lyng mean? I looked it up and can only find it to be the name of a British town...

[Chris Lee @ Sep 7th 2006 12:54AM]

lyngsat is a great site, but I wouldnt count on it ever being current. and lyngsat never carries any of the wildfeeds or blackhauls. Id much rather just have blindscan.

no it wont tune directtv, and even if it did it wont be able to decode it.

dishnets HD is in 8psk turbo-fec, its not an encryption type, its a modulation type. dishnet uses a moddified 8psk unlike the rest of the world, its unlikley that this ird would be able to tune dishnet HD.

give me a dreambox 8000 anyday, if theyre ever released.

[user333 @ Nov 8th 2007 9:41AM]

In tech.spec's satelite inputs:
Modulation: 8PSK, QPSK
http://www.lyngbox.com/specs/

[Peter Payne @ Sep 7th 2006 1:47AM]

Is it made by the SlingBox people? If not, they really should take issue with this on copyright grounds, since it's so utterly close that I, at least, thought they were by the same company.

[DR BUZZ0 @ Sep 7th 2006 2:26AM]

Actually, Mr. Lee....

8psk is spessified in the DVB-S 2.0 standard. Some of the newer Dish HDTV channels also use mpeg-4 AVC. Hence they will not be able to be decoded by any standard equipment that is not DVB-S2 compatable.

You can already buy a sat tuner that will tune in Dish HD channels. There are a couple companies that make 8psk-capable tuners. These include Pinnical and DigitalCruz.

So you could do the BYO PVR way with that. The encrypted content would require a valid Dish Network access card and a card reader with the proper cam.

Of course...Dish's encryption (Nagravision 2) has been hacked to peices...so you could also do it without a card... But I wouldn't encourage that...

[jcj @ Nov 8th 2007 9:43AM]

Did you check LyngBox specs, it is DVB-S 2.0 standard with 8psk modulation and H.264/MPEG-4 AVC video decoder.
http://www.lyngbox.com/specs/

[RyanV @ Sep 7th 2006 10:13AM]

so will this box take the clouds out of the sky on a rainy day when all you want to do is lay around and watch TV but you can't because your TV is "Searching for Satellite Signal..."?

[Nathan @ Sep 7th 2006 11:11AM]

Dr Buzz0

If you know anything you would have known that yes Nag2 has been hacked but...and this is a big but....many including the DVB card makers are unable to complete the map section of the Nag2 card in software. Only 1 FTA has been able to do this, that was Viewsat. So your solution to do the pvr without a card in not possible at this moment.

[Debbie @ Sep 7th 2006 9:10PM]

Now, couch potatoes have a new gadget to tinker. This is definitely interesting.

[Carl Craft @ Sep 9th 2006 5:51AM]

How mutch does it cost? Where is its home page? Is there support for it?

[harpdog @ Sep 14th 2006 3:19PM]

At present there is no ird fta or otherwise other than echostar systems that can do dn hd. Hacked or not is not the issue. Dreambox8000 is put on hold because they only sell mostly to hacked users and due to the new map57 intalled to their access card, and with dn starting to counter the hackers even more Buying an hd to use for hacked is not advised due to legal reprocutions and its limited to how it can be used. However, buying one of these babies for just over the air(ota) is something I would look into. If this can work with dtv access card then I would buy it or with any other access card I would buy it but this is for North America and since this is a euro based product, NA geeks may not get much use from it.