Hi

After 4,5 years of using 2 Irdeto Allcams in 2 VDR-systems i'm in the process of buying the parts for a third VDR-instance.

First i bought an Alphycrypt ((light) which i got yesterday) to test if it works with our biggest pay-tv-provider in germany. It does work. And the recordings since yesterday evening (only 6 so far) were all OK.

Now i wonder if the Alphacrypt is more "stable" than the Allcam. Every now and then the Allcams "lose" sync for a few seconds to a few minutes and in the last few month the data-rate on the movie channels (1,2 and 3) were increased and most times need more than one attempt to get a corruption-free recording. I've had up to 20 "glitches" in movie recordings in the past few month, whereas there is normaly only 1 at most 2 in a "normal" corrupted recording on any other channel.(*)

So i wonder if anyone knows from experience if the Alphacrypt is better(tm) and if i should replace the 2 Allcams with another 2 Alphacrypts.

*: I "vdrsync" my recordings into a single .mpg file. Only when vdrsync throws is NO or only a 'PTS overflow' error in the process i define that recording as "error-free" and keep it. Otherwise i flush it don't the toilet.