[linux-dvb] Which DVB-T card has best reception characteristics (was: Visionplus DVB-T USB strange reception quality...)

["Alwin Bakkenes" <alwin.bakkenes@consat.se>]

OK,

With that said. I need a DVB-T device (PCI or USB) with the best reception
properties available on the market today. I don't really care what it costs.
I need it to work.

What is the best card on the market today?
- The Nova-T?
- The Twinhan magic box?

Please, I have a good outdoor antenna (+/- 16M above ground = +/-68M above
sea level), the Nokia 212T works fine.. I want so badly to build a DVB-T/S
based MythTV system... I just need to get free to air DVB-T working to get
started.

Thanks in advance!

Alwin

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Patrick Boettcher
Skickat: den 8 oktober 2004 13:32
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Ämne: [linux-dvb] Re: Visionplus DVB-T USB strange reception quality...

On Fri, 8 Oct 2004, Alwin Bakkenes wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I bought a Twinhan Visionplus DVB-T USB recently after trying a PCI
> version and getting bad reception. I run Suse 9.1, currently with the
> latest dvb-kernel from CVS (three days ago) and a 1:st october kernel
> from Mantel (2.
6.8.1).
> status 04 | signal 0b21 | snr 0000 | ber 001fffff | unc 00000000 |

Currently the signal strength and the s-n-r is not calculated correctly.
Status, ber and unc are correct.

> The really weird part is that I got  good enough values from my PCI
> based card for the same channel (not for others). I could watch TV
> flawlessly, see
> below:

> So, my question is: What is going on? Has anybody seen this type of
> problem with the drivers?

The Twinhan USB device has IMO the worst quality of all dibusb devices. I
also have the KWorld one and a DiBcom reference device, the reception
strength is much better.

best regards,
Patrick.

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