[linux-dvb] Re: Is there any full-featured DVB-T card (combination) working in Berlin?

[Hannes Stein <hannsens@macnews.de>]

Hallo Juri,

Am Freitag, 25.07.03, um 12:36 Uhr (Europe/Berlin) schrieb Juri 
Haberland:

> Hannes Stein wrote:
> > The
> > support of the first shop told me, that this card only has just one
> > tuner (not both parts - whatever that means...)[...]
> I think they mean that this tuner cannot receive UHF - e.g. channels 5
> and 7 in Berlin.
Oh, thanks, I just couldn't image what two parts it might be, now it's 
quit clear. Does it mean, that the countries transmitting only UHF have 
less channels (or at least: they don't have the ability to have more 
channels than UHF/VHF)?


> > The other card has a Grundig-Tuner (BSRU6 0N2815A), the Chips are
> > Philips SAA7146 and a Texas Instruments DSP (TMX320AV71111GFN). But 
> > the
> > price (320 EURO) is more than a budget DVB-T card _and_ a premium 
> > DVB-C
> > (or -S) card together! A lot of money wasted, if it wouldn't work.
> It's basically the same card with the same limitations.
> There's a third variant with a tuner from ALPS. It cannot receive UHF 
> as
> well.
Great. So there's a big variaty of cards _not_ working for me.
I just got an email from technotrend that they don't plan to build a 
full-featured DVB-T card  for UHF _and_ VHF. All cards they know having 
a UHF/VHF tuner don't have a hardware Decoder (Haupauge DEC 2000-T, 
Lorenzen DVB-T).

> > [...Siemens full-featured DVB-C together with TT DVB-T budget card 
> > (120 EURO)...]
> Well, the analog module is not fully supported yet, but it seems that
> it's getting better. Another benefit of the Siemens card is that you
> could receive the digital channels in the Berlin cable (though only the
> ARD and ZDF stuff).
My DVB-C Provider would be Primacom.de, digital cable would cost an 
extra 2,71 EURO/month just for:
DVB-C: XXP, ZDF Vision, 2xARD Digital(where I get ZDF-Doku, ZDF-Info 
and ARD via DVB-T)

> > Last thing would be, to get this haupauge DEC-2000T and try to make
> > that thing work... but having read the stuff about this, i don't think
> > it's a good idea...
> I wouldn't go into that direction as I don't know whether this USB box
> is capable of replaying MPEG streams. Anyone?
Having a set-top-box sounds interessting, but i never trust things that 
are connected via USB 1 (except mouse and keyboard). Wouldn't a DXR3 
fix that play-back problem?

> Here you have two possibilities:
> Either get a full-featured card (doesn't matter what kind of DVB
> [S|C|T]) or get a Hollywood+ DXR3 via eBay. The DXR3 seems to be the
> most cheapest solution and maybe even the best one.
Does that mean, i can use all the DXR3 cards, for example the ones from 
"creative" sold here:
http://search.ebay.de/search/search.dll?query=DXR3? (I didn't find a 
"hollywood+" card, so i don't know what this meant).

I have another question: what about heat and power-supply? Does a DXR3 
need the same power as a DVB card? Do they need the power only when 
they're used or all the time?

Even if there're some new questions I have (which are less importaint) 
I'd like to thank you for helping me with the major problems in 
choosing my VDR Hardware.


Hannes

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