Receiving HD is actually very straightforward using HD satellite television receivers, and they are at your disposal at decent prices. You can receive unmatched watching pleasure that features Dolby Digital and DTS surround sound that is available at local movie theaters. This is just great when it comes to putting together ones dream home theatre solution. Don't forget that satellite television receivers primarily function well with HD able TVs. Regular television displays are not appropriate for a high definition satellite receiver and consequently you need to purchase a television having a minimum of 1080i support, although the ideal image is attainable with televisions that will possess 1080P support.This is the high definition PVR. Like the DM-7025, it supports pluggable tuner modules. In addition to High Definition, it has an upgrade for a DVD drive (slot in). And it has USB 2.0. Physically on the box it has one DVI-port, but with the supplied DVI to HDMi Cable you get HDMI video. Originally announced to become available in the beginning of 2007, its release date was pushed back. The product then began shipping on 12.12.2008. The planned features were revised as well. Originally, this model was supposed to have 128 MiB of RAM (now 256), 32 MiB of flash (now 256 MiB) and a 300 MHz processor (now 400 MHz Broadcom 7400). Other Linux-based HD receivers became available in the meantime.Clones of the DM500-S are wide spread. As a result, Dream Multimedia introduced the DM500+, with changes to try to prevent further counterfeiting. Clones also exist of DM500 and DM800, built around the same commodity IBM SoC chip and hence having identical or slightly superior features but not sold under the Dreambox brand name (e.g., the Envision 500S, with 48 megabytes of RAM instead of 32, also available in a 500C cable version, the Eagle box or the Linbox 5558). They have a retail price approaching the one of non-Linux receivers, generally a fraction of the Dreambox 500 price. Since they contain a copy of the copyrighted original DM500 bootloader program, the legality of these devices is questionable. In April 2008, Dream Multimedia allegedly introduced a time bomb into their latest flash to disable the boot loader on counterfeit models. An unofficial firmware group called Gemini who used the latest flash drivers in their firmware, found that flash corruption would be caused on clone DM500-S receivers. Other developers of unofficial firmware groups would find boxes to be affected by this if they use the latest drivers, providing another time bomb is to be introduced. Informations about satellite receiver and DM800S you will find on our site.