I thought the MT352 is a demodulator... isn't the tuner a separate entity?? For example my cards both use a MT352 demod and they also both have a Thomson 7579 tuner.... so it may be that your devices both had the MT352 but different tuners... here's what I discovered on the wiki http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Demodulator incidentally, was the misbehaving USB stick one of the ones listed between 33-42 in the following list?? http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/DVB_USB#Twinhan_DVB-T_USB2.0 Viktor On Sunday 04 March 2007 23:02, Nico Sabbi wrote: > Nico Sabbi wrote: > > Thomas Pinz - DC2RPT wrote: > >> In my personal experience, the differences between the devices are > >> most time very small and i could not recommend a device which is > >> better than all others. > >> > >> Kind regards, > >> Thomas Pinz > > > > theory apart (that I don't understand at all), in my experience > > some cards have abysmally better tuning performance than others, > > in the sense that while my Airstar2 receives everything available here > > with exceptional signal integrity other pci/usb receivers I tried > > either received absolutely nothing or at most 2/3 of the frequencis > > tuned by > > the Airstar2, often with a lot of glitches. > > I forgot to say that the worst receiver I tried (an usb stick > that tuned next to nothing) had the same demodulator as the Airstar2 > (the mt352); > this fact alone says a lot about the quality of the single tuners _______________________________________________ linux-dvb mailing list linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb