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— 05-06/2015 — TELE-audiovision International — 全球发行量最大的数字电视杂志
● TBS has managed to implement complex streaming technology
in an exemplary way.
● The Linux operating system offers enormous flexibility.
● Streaming can take place across the local network at home or
the Internet at large.
● PCI-e slot technology is compatible with almost all TBS recep-
tion cards.
● Extensive range of pre-installed software.
● Easy set-up via web interface.
● None
but you should expect this
result given that the signal is
distributed in its original dig-
ital form and therefore not
subject to outside influenc-
es. No matter whether you
use a smartphone, tablet, or
a 50-inch plasma display, the
quality you get will always be
perfect – or at least as good
as provided by the individual
channels in the first place.
In total, we found the Xbox
Media Center to be an excel-
lent match to the Moi Plus
streaming box. There is,
however, a small drop of bit-
terness involved: If you want
to use the Xbox Media Center
with an iOS device or the Ap-
ple TV this only works with
jailbroken devices. In other
words, you need to subject
the operating system to ma-
jor modifications which in
many cases cannot be un-
done after the fact. Unfortu-
nately, Apple has so far re-
fused to add the Xbox Media
Center to its App Store, so
this is why there is no other
way. Android users are a lit-
tle better off. While they are
not offered the app in Goog-
le Play Store either, at least
they can manually install the
Xbox Media Center without
having to interfere with their
operating system.
And then there might
be users who deliberately
choose not to install the Xbox
Media Center. If you have a
PC or Mac, there are some
purposeful workarounds
such as the VLC media player
(available for download from
), which
can process the individual
program streams provided
by the Moi Plus streaming
box. The Tvheadend web in-
terface displays a dedicated
button next to each chan-
nel in the channel list, which
can be used for direct play-
back with VLC. Quite frankly,
though, this is not really a
convenient alternative. The
manufacturer’s in-house TBS
IPTV app for Android might
turn out to be a slightly bet-
ter option. It turns your An-
droid smartphone or tablet
into a streaming client and
while it worked as intended
during our test, it is a rather
bare-bone solution and does
not offer any added features
like EPG, language selec-
tion or PVR functionality. If
truth be told, the Xbox Media
Center is the best available
complement to the Moi Plus
streaming box.
Due to the open software
architecture of the Moi Plus
streaming box it is entirely
up to its users if and when
individual software compo-
nents are updated. And if
you don’t want to deal with
that aspect at all you can al-
ways visit the TBS website
from time to time, where the
manufacturer offers an up-
dated overall software pack-
age in regular intervals. Us-
ing it makes sure all relevant
software components are
kept up to date more or less
automatically. All you need is
a USB stick to which you can
first download the update file
and which then takes care
of all the rest as soon as the
Moi Plus streaming box is re-
stared after connecting the
USB stick to it. Easy and reli-
able – just the way we like it.