The new Viewsat 2000 Ultra supports a larger and newer design Processor from Conexant. The unit also sports a 4mb flash area, and 32 megs of RAM. A USB 2.0 compatible port is also included for flashing the unit from a USB jump drive, or displaying digital pictures on your tv, as well as for playing mp3's. The card reader is also included, thoough X-Crypt is embedded.

This newest entry from Viewsat has a nice new GUI and offers a 7 day EPG. the new unit is definitely a welcome addition to the VS line of stb's.

Power Supply
Type: SMPS
Input Voltage: AC 95V~240v 50Hz / 60Hz
Fuse Rating: 250V/T2A

Tuner
Input Frequency: 950 ~ 2150MHz
Input Signal Level: -65 ~ -25dBm
Input Impedance: 75ohm Unbalanced
Connector Type: "F"Type Female
LNB Power Supply: 13V/18V, Max 500mA with Short Circuit Protection
22KHz Tone: Frequency 22± 4KHz, Amplitude 0.6±0.2Vpp
DiSEqC: 1.0 , 1.1, 1.2, USALS(1.3) Compatible
Channel Selection: PLL Frequency Synthesizer

Demodulator
Type: QPSK Demodulation (DVB-S)
Symbol Rate: 1 ~ 45 MS/s
Inner FEC: Viterbi Convolutional Coding
Rate 1/2, 2/3, 3/4, 5/6, 7/8
Outer FEC: Reed Solomon Coding(204,188) T=8

Video Decoder
System Decoding: MPEG-2 ISO/IEC 13818-2
Profile and Level: MPEG-2 MP@ML
Data Rate: 1 ~15 MB/s
Video Formats: 4:3(Normal) & 16:9(Widescreen)

Audio Decoder
System Decoding: MPEG-1 ISO/IEC 11172-3 Layer I & II
Audio Mode: Mono, Dual, Stereo, Joint Stereo
Sampling Frequency: 32, 44.1, 48 KHz

Audio/Video Output
Audio Output: 2 RCA Cinch
Video Output: 1 RCA Cinch
Digital Audio: 1 S/PDIF (Optical)
S-Video: 1 S-VIDEO
COMPONENT: 3 RCA Cinch

RF Modulator
Modulator Output: CH3~4
Video Type: NTSC
Output Connector: "F" Type Female
Ant. IN Connector: "F" Type Female
8. Serial Data Interface
Signal: RS-232, Max. 115200 bps
Connector Type: 9 Pin D-Sub (male)

Embedded Descramble
X Crypt Conditional Access System

Memory
Flash: 4MByte
SDRAM: 40MByte (System: 16MB*2, A/V: 8MB)
EEPROM: 16Kbit