Thats exactly my point. Maybe other manufacturer support complete dvbapi and comply to Openpli coding standard because they dont invest in hardware innovation like vu+ does. Seams obvious that its way more difficult as well as expensive to be first in combination with new bcm hardware. Pli team should also take this important point in account.
I heard this layman argument before on another forum.That is completely far fetched and well pushed by the marketing people of the manufacturer.
The all misinterpreted assumption here is that VU+ is the innovator by using new chips employed in their stbs.
Remember ? They are only reselling bcm chip boards with remote, power supply, and black "sexy" packaging and top of that the marketing
promise some of the proceeds go to the hungry children of this world.
So believe me or not I don't believe in this company anymore - considering you can buy a soc chip for less then EUR 100 +/- some other parts which are not making the difference to EUR 500. Where are those moneys going? Are you paying for brick and mortar manufacturing in that price? I dont think so. Broadcom is a fabless company. They do not own their own manufacturing either. I really doubt Vu+ has their own. To put things into perspective when they buy these chips and actually the entire boards as reference design from BCM they are also receiving the SDK (Broadcom software) which is used in combination with their software dvb-api implementation to create the drivers. So you can put two and two together, in some of the latest drivers they do not even bother to rename the old soc name from the sources , because it is all working using the same dvb-api drivers which they started using 5 years ago.
So for them priority is shipping as many boxes as possible to their customers not to add new features. They say they do add new features by releasing new boxes but the chips are not even used at their true potential. Or if it is kludged together don't expect to be working 100% bug free to the entire life of the product. And five years from now you will probably end-up with buying a new box which is replacing an old one which you never used it as you should have the first place. And most probably asking OpenPli for support. Marketing bullshit needs to stop. Stop luring customers.
When it's that easy to build a STB, that is get the chip from someone, and other things from someone else, why don't you start your own business?
OK, I don't like myself the marketing BS, but your demagogy in going around the bushes and blaming VU+ for their actions IMHO seems like more BS.
And forget the software layers, or technical issues, it's a simple issue between OpenPLi team and VU+, and I won't be the first to openly name it :-)