Goliath – more than just digital TV

 Dream revolutionises the consumption of digital media

 Dream Multimedia, the leading provider of Linux-based set-top boxes, will provide visitors to the Anga Cable show, which takes place from the 12th to the 14th of June 2012 with a glimpse into the future of digital media. Dream will be presenting its Goliath project at its stand, E34 in hall 10.2.
 Goliath is a totally new hardware and software product, combining all the features of the successful Dreambox series, and indeed will go
 beyond that. The project will set new standards in terms of speed and innovation, and will revolutionise the manner in which media contents are consumed. Goliath is currently still at the development stage, and it can thus not yet be stated precisely when the product will be available in the trade.
 However, Dream will provide a glimpse of the future of digital media at the Anga Cable show. Goliath will be introduced for the first time in
 a video. In addition, visitors to the Dream Multimedia stand at the show can get an actual feel for this innovative hardware.

 Dream spokesperson Alpaslan Karasu: „While others are still busy cloning and copying, we at Dream are already building the future, in
 the shape of Goliath. Right from the start, Dream Multimedia has focussed on the convergence of television and the Internet. These
 years of experience are now being brought into the development of Goliath. Goliath will lead the consumption of digital media into a new
 era.“


Goliath: New Dreambox Enigma2 and successor

Prior to the ANGA Cable 2012 was much speculation, what is it for new products which will be presented and how it will proceed with the Dreambox and Enigma2. Now it is more specific: There are much better with a new Dreambox hardware, the successor to the Dreambox Enigma2 and network.

  Of 12 to 14 June 2012 will be held this year's ANGA Cable.
  This is a "trade fair for cable, satellite and multimedia", which is not addressed to consumers, but business to providers, retailers and others.
  There are developments presented here, which show the direction in which the entire market will develop for the end user.
  Of course, in so do not miss a fair dream and was present with a booth.
  In the exhibition, alongside all the latest Dream boxes (DM500 HD, DM800SE, DM8000, DM7020 and DM600pvr HD) is also a video about the new "Project Goliath" were.
  And of course, has this time been no shortage of cocktail stand.



Dream is published in advance of the ANGA Cable 2012 press release about Goliath.
  From this press release are mainly the following two sets of very interesting:
Goliath is a completely new hardware and software that combines all the features of the successful Dream Boxes in itself and this trump.
  The project will set new standards for speed and innovation and the way media content is consumed, revolutionize.
What that means is, yesterday in an interview with Dream at ANGA illustrates again.
  There will be a new Dreambox, which will consist not only of a new hardware, but also gets a new system - that is the successor of Enigma2.


New hardware: more power, better processor


  But first time for the hardware:
  Who in the new OE 2.0 images ever tried the browser, or HbbTV has certainly noticed that although there were already several performance updates,
  is relatively slow and it takes some time until the pages are loaded and displayed on the TV.
  The reason for this is simply the processor the Dreambox.
  The Broadcom processors that were used in the newer Dreambox DM8000 and have a capacity of 400 MHz (dual core).
  On such a processor, it takes something now time to images and processes an entire page and has been shown.



Therefore, it is planned for the new Dreambox Goliath Project, a new, powerful processor. Broadcom offers this to any suitable processor,
 which means that Goliath will also be a detachment from Broadcom.
 The new processor is supposed to represent a significant performance improvement:
 A processor performance over 1 GHz, and of course dual core. With such a processor, the web browser will make a lot of fun,
 perhaps even new media formats left little performance.
 What type of processor architecture, this will be is officially not known, nor even the question which manufacturers come into question.
 However, it may be advantageous not to change the processor architecture and to stay at MIPS, chances are this is certainly not bad.
 In addition to the new hardware inside the Dreambox will also change the design of the Dreambox.
 You will remain while still recognizable as Dreambox, but still look different.
 The new prototype was exhibited only hidden - it was possible to feel for him to watch, but there was nothing.
 The reason for this is surely obvious:
 The competition will not get to see before publication, look like the new Dream boxes - a practice that is practiced by the majority of car manufacturers.


 New software combines all previous and more


 In order to exploit the new power can come together with the new hardware and new software on the Dreambox.
 An important statement is anticipated that all that was previously possible with a Dreambox, Goliath will also be possible.
 It is clear that will come with the new Dreambox Enigma2 no longer used.
 Whether the new software builds on the core now Enigma2 or it really is a completely new development is not known.
 However, it should give, as with Enigma2, interfaces for plug-ins.
 And it should, stood, giving the possibility to adapt the "old" Enigma2-ins so that they work with Goliath.
 Here, however, is not known, and more accurate it is possible that in the end everything is different - there is no other choice than to wait.



It will probably be later this year so far that the tuner will be released - assuming there is nothing wrong.
  There will be a slight caveat:
  The tuner is only supported by the DM800SE.
  Thus, the small Dreambox could be a twin tuner Dreambox converted easily.


  Conclusion


  We may be curious about what exactly is developing the project Goliath. Although the information published so far are not very detailed and rich in detail, but to no later than the next year there will be more accurate ANGA - and the new Dreambox.
  Previously published information in any case ever heard of good and actually meet the current needs of many users:
  More performance for more functions.
  Let us surprise us even know how it evolved and what it will be so far!