On Thursday 27 March 2008 12:56:41 Eamonn Sullivan wrote: > On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 10:26 AM, Andy Carter <dvb@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Thursday 27 March 2008 10:14:07 Eamonn Sullivan wrote: > > > A standard, meaning an earlier version (not the 500)? > > > > Yup, like the 909 on this page > > > > http://www.hauppauge.co.uk/pages/products/prods_digital-t.html > > > > These are standard PCI not the PCI/usb used by Nova T500 and similar > > I think the issue with this one, if I understand the reviews > correctly, is that it lacks any on-board amplifier. Given that the > Nova-T 500 is already receiving a much weaker signal than I get with a > standard freeview box (is that a driver issue?), I think this could be > a problem. That's certainly true with my old setup with a 4 year old PCI card which required an aerial amp to function at all well - albeit on a standard antenna and standard coax drop lead. The Nova T500 does provide much better reception here, amp turned down considerably and noticeably less glitches and artefacts. > I'm getting the impression that there aren't a whole lot of choices > out there for DVB-T. I suppose I could also just use an older version > of the Linux kernel, but unlike others here, the Nova-T 500 wasn't > working very reliably for me under Ubuntu 7.10 either. It worked for > maybe a day. I had a cron task to reboot the machine in the middle of > the night, which was an ugly hack around that problem, and at least it > would record most programs. But the remote wouldn't last longer than a > few hours... Not ideal :( Incidentally if Phil Pemberton is reading this, my stable system is using an Intel usb chipset. Andy _______________________________________________ linux-dvb mailing list linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb
