Re: DVB-T2 tuner dismantled: PCTV Nanostick T2 290e

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Hi Konstantin,

That's an interesting observation, and a valid one given, for example,
the addition of QAM-256. I don't know enough about T or T2 to know how
the difference impact the tuner requirements.

Nevertheless, I can receive the T2 mux that is broadcast in my area. It
has to be through my roof antenna, and even when digital switchover is
complete here, I doubt that portable antennas will work particularly
well here then.

If PCTV had the option of using the better tuner, maybe they decided not
to because the cost of the Sony demod pushed up the BoM too far already.
Impossible to say for sure.

I guess we'll have to wait and see if somebody brings out a solution
with TDA18272/Sony demod combo before we can compare reception quality.

Regards,
-- 
Steve Kerrison MEng Hons.
http://www.stevekerrison.com/ 

-----Original Message-----
From: Konstantin Dimitrov <kosio.dimitrov@xxxxxxxxx>
To: steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: Anca Emanuel <anca.emanuel@xxxxxxxxx>, linux-media@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: DVB-T2 tuner dismantled: PCTV Nanostick T2 290e
Date: 	Wed, 24 Nov 2010 21:11:07 +0200

On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 6:44 PM,  <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> - it looks like the demod is the only new piece of hardware to deal with

and actually it makes DVB-T2 performance of that device very
questionable (at least in my opinion), because NXP silicon tuner
TDA18271 is old model and not DVB-T2 ready:

http://www.nxp.com/#/pip/pip=[pip=TDA18271HD]|pp=[t=pip,i=TDA18271HD]

like the new DVB-T2 ready NXP silicon tuner TDA18272:

http://www.nxp.com/#/pip/pip=[pip=TDA18272HN_SDS]|pp=[t=pip,i=TDA18272HN_SDS]

and so it's quite reasonable to assume that old silicon tuner designed
for DVB-T such as TDA18271 is not capable to provide optimal
performance for DVB-T2, which has high requirements for sure.

--konstantin
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