On Sun, 5 Jun 2005, Dave Chapman wrote: > Patrick Boettcher wrote: >> >> If you want to use DVB-T and USB I would recommend you a device with a >> dib3000p-frontend. It is USB2.0, has a PID filter (32 slots) and this >> PID filter can be disabled (so can deliver complete TS). (Hauppauge >> Nova-T USB2 or Avermedia USB2.0). >> >> Besides the reception qualitiy of these boxes is very good in difficult >> areas, at least this is my subjective impression after testing about 10 >> different boxes (which had other frontends). > > Sorry to take this thread off-topic slightly, but have you compared the > reception of USB and PCI devices? Hmm, not compared, but while writing drivers I did not move the antenna and saw that different boxes (and one PCI card) had different reception abilities. The dib3000p-driven boxes were the ones with best strength. > I'm currently using a "new" Nova-t card, which seems better than my > "old" (i.e. the very first version) Nova-t, but I'm still getting > occasional dropouts. > Would you recommend I try one of the two USB boxes you mention? If you have the option of returning the box in case it won't work, yes. I did not test the Nova-T PCI, though. Good luck, Patrick. -- Mail: patrick.boettcher@xxxxxxx WWW: http://www.wi-bw.tfh-wildau.de/~pboettch/
