Patrick Boettcher wrote: > Hi, > > On Sun, 24 Jul 2005, thomas schorpp wrote: > >> 3. pls provide technical arguments for your claim. > > > Uh, sorry, I meant no offense. I just wanted to confirm your observations. me not, too ;) > > I was using the ves1820-based FF card for one year successfully (no > problem on any frequency). Then it begins to have problems with some > frequencies. At first I assumed physical cable problems, but it wasn't > the case... From day to day it got worse, up to that even the former > good frequencies have become distorted. cannot confirm here, looks f independent... > > To check if it is my cable connection's fault or a hardware failure of > the ves1820, I got a stv0297-based DVB-C card and _every_ frequency > available was _very_ good again, with the same cable. not confirmed. just crosschecked with a collegue with new dbox over phone, same problems on same channels. and, as i stated, only on some hours of the day, so the problem is not permanent, so not hardware old-age failure. so we suspect kabelbw's satellite downlink station in the region... i had got problems with same channels ard-digital on astra at bad weather and clouds, there are clouds now here, ill wait for ard's statement next week. > > So I assume the ves1820-based board has some kind of hardware failure > which is raising steadily. unlikely, the QA requirements at manufacturing (vlsi, philips, siemens) are real hard, and these chips are not "made in china". claimed MTBF is surely 5-10 years for such chips. more likely your card got overheated in summer in the pc case... ;) this would cause chip damage, or electrostatics. > > Patrick. > > -- > Mail: patrick.boettcher@xxxxxxx > WWW: http://www.wi-bw.tfh-wildau.de/~pboettch/ > y tom
