[linux-dvb] Re: frequency bending on DVB-T cards

[Gavin Hamill <gdh@acentral.co.uk>]

On Sunday 12 January 2003 12:09 am, Andrew de Quincey wrote:

> What do people think I should do if two cards which are marked not to
> use bending are then tuned to the same frequency... "tune and be
> damned", or return an appropriate error for the second card?

Well, I can't imagine there ever being more than 1 programme on Freeview that 
I'd want to see, so the whole point is fairly moot ;)

Seriously though, I would run with "tune and be damned"... do you have 2 
cards? Just wondered if you'd done any tests re: signal strength if the two 
are tuned to the same freq.

Anything that causes tuning to be faster is a bonus esp for 'zapping' where 
the logical channel order will be spread across multiple muxes.. 

<initial tuning> BBC1, BBC2 
<change mux> ITV, C4, 
<change mux> C5, 
<change mux> BBC NEWS, 
<change mux> BBC THREE, BBC FOUR, etc.

If we drop the frequency bending, channel zapping should be a much more 
pleasant experience =)

One of the most annoying thing about the Sky Digibox is the time taken to 
change channels.. it might be only a second, but it's still a pain in the 
back side when you multiply that by the hundreds of channels on offer, 
compounded by the fact you'll decide whether or not to watch that channel 
within a second =)

So, for the perfect STB, fast channel changes takes priority =)

gdh


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