On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 11:59 AM, Tim Williams<tmw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, 5 Aug 2009, Christian Wattengård wrote: > >> Ok. Too bad. Then why are DVB-T units, that needs more technology, >> half the price of DVB-C units... Annoys me... :) > > That's probably down to economies of scale. Most people who have cable will > have been supplied with a receiver box by their cable company, so buying a > PCI/USB card for the computer will be an addtional option for most cable > users, that the majority don't want/need. Where as for DVB-T you pick your > own equipment at the shop, so you may well go for the PCI/USB adapter as the > first option. That beeing said. What is currently the cheapest availible, and supported, DVB-C USB/PCI unit availible? We have the Hauppauge 930c for 650 NOK here now (about €75), and I have seen the Satelco cards on dvbshop for €55. But the shipping to Norway from dvbshop (which I believe is in germany) is more than what makes it valuable. -C- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
