From: "Manu Abraham" <abraham.manu@xxxxxxxxx> > > Well a future vendor advertises, > > "Hey, this device works OTA all over the world" > > How do you propose to support such a device ? > > A cut n' paste .. > > Revolutionizing the hybrid PC TV market, Philips’ TDA18271 is a new > generation terrestrial / cable silicon tuner that can handle all > worldwide analog and digital TV standards. This is just an *RF tuner* component, which, by itself, cannot receive anything at all. You still need to couple it with an analog video decoder and/or a digital demodulator. And there are still no multistandard digital demodulators as far as I can tell... Regards, -- Robert Schlabbach e-mail: robert_s@xxxxxxx Berlin, Germany _______________________________________________ linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb