The new Ultra Vs2000 supports a larger and newer design Processor 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 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 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. 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?.2Vpp DiSEqC: 1.0 , 1.1, 1.2, USALS(1.3) Compatible Channel ion: 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