[vdr] TNT cards advice

Lauri Tischler lwgt at iki.fi
Sat Mar 1 13:01:53 CET 2008


Niko Mikkila wrote:

>> A last question, with DVB-S, I'm needing two cards if I want to see two 
>> different channels because the channels could be on differents 
>> transponders. But is it true with DVB-T ? In others words: if I want to 
>> see 3 differents channels, do I really need 3 DVB-T tuners ?
> 
> Basically the same rule applies. You'll need as many tuners as there are
> different transponders that you want to receive simultaneously. For
> example, if there are four transponders, but all the channels that you
> commonly watch are on two of them, you'll only need two tuners (even if
> you wathed 10 channels from those two transponders simultaneously).

In DVB-T the 'transponders' are usually called 'bouquets',
with one DVB-T card you can receive/records all channels on that
bouquet.



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