Amiko SHD-8900 Alien Specs

High Definition Digital Satellite Receiver & Media Player

Award winning Dual-boot Linux Receiver

• Conax Embedded Card Reader
• Wireless Network & 3G Modem Support
• Online User's Manual & F.A.Q.
• Opera Web Browser & Internet Applications
• Full HD - 1080p

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MAIN FEATURES

• MPEG-Fully DVB-S / DVB-S2 HD compliant
• Linux Embedded OS
• Conax Embedded Card Reader
• Endless channels (TV and Radio) programmable
• Multilingual menu text support
• Channel list editing
• Favourite channel list editing
• True-color On-Screen Display (OSD)
• Full Picture In Graphic (PIG) function
• Electronic Program Guide (EPG) for on screen channel information
• Subtitle supported
• Teletext supported by software emulation
• Parental lock facility by channel and program event
• Program and Channel information transfer from receiver to receiver
• S/PDIF for digital audio or Dolby Digital bitstream output
• DiSEqC 1.0, 1.1, 1.2 and USALS
• HDMI HD Video/Audio Output
• USB 2.0 Host
• LED Display for service information
• RTC (Real-Time-Clock)
• Time Shift
• Video Recording
• Recording one channel and Time Shifting another channel (optional)
• FullHD 1080p output via HDMI
• AVI, MKV, MPG, TS, WMA, WMV, M2TS, FLV, DAT, ASF, MP3 playback
• YouTube, SHOUTcast Radio, and Picasa Compatible
• Weather forecast & Rss Reader Functions
• Software Upgrade support via USB, RS232 or Internet
• Endless possibilities with Plug-In support
• Message, FAQ and User Manual support
• Download files from FTP server

I'll add the more in depth specs:


TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS
SYSTEM RESOURCES
Main Processor: 450 Mhz STI 7111 CPU
Flash Memory: Nor flash: 8MB X 1 ; Nand flash:512MB X 1
DDR SDRAM: DDR2 128MB x 2

Tuner/Front-end
Tuner Type: DVB-S / DVB-S2
Input Connector: F-type, Connector, Female
Loop Through: F-type, Connector, Female
Signal Level: -65 to -25 dBm
LNB Power & Polarization: Vertical: +13V/+14V, Horizontal: +18V/+19V, Current: Max. 500mA, Overload Protection
22KHz Tone: Frequency: 22

The Amiko STI 7111 Specs:


It only says 450 Mhz CPU, but it is a STI 7111 CPU.

Description

The STi7111 is an HD set-top box / full back-end processor for satellite set-top boxes, compliant with ATSC, SMPTE VC-1, DVB-S2, DIRECTV, DCII and ARIB BS4 specifications.

It provides very high performance for low-cost HD systems. With enhanced performance compared to the STi7109, it includes both VC-1 and H.264 video decoders for new, low bitrate applications.

The main platform target for the STi7111 is the DVB-S2 zapper. Optionally the device can be used in a client box through IP over Ethernet, Multimedia over Coax Alliance (MoCA) or WiFi.

Key Features


Microsoft VC-1, MPEG-2 and H.264 support
ST40-300 CPU running at 450 MHz, high performance for Linux, Windows CE and OS21 based systems
DVB-S2 and DVB-S front-end integrated demodulators with a fully featured HD advanced decoder system-on-chip (SoC)
Flexible ST231 based advanced video decoder
ST231 audio decoder at 450 MHz supporting WMA9, AC3, DD+, AAC, AAC+ with SPDIF output
HD and SD simultaneous display, 2 video, 3 graphics planes and background color with high quality filtering
HDMI/HCDP output plus HD or standard definition (SD) component and composite output
Unified DDR2 32-bit interface operating at up to 400MHz
Programmable transport interface (PTI) and transport stream (TS) merger with up to 2 digital external TS inputs, 2 internal inputs from internal demodulators and one TS from memory for network client
USB 2.0 to support network interface and feature enhancement
External memory interface (EMI) with Nand-Flash, Nor-Flash, PCI, peripherals support
10/100 Mbit/s Ethernet MAC with media independent interface (MII) and reduced MII (RMII)
Advanced security, SVP compliant, WM DRM compliant
Dual smartcard, 4 x UART, 3 x synchronous serial controllers (SSC), soft modem and DAA interface, IR blaster and receiver, UHF Rx digital input
DiSEqC 2.0 and FSK modem supported
4 x 4 matrix key front panel switch scanner FSM with key de-bounce
27 x 27mm package, 65nm technology

From: st.com/internet/imag_video/product/204735.jsp

The main platform target for the STi7111 is the DVB-S2 zapper.

Google DVB-S2 zapper

It brings up the xml sites to download full channel lists. We may need a US server or could set one up on our network to "Zap" info to it. So interesting.