[mythtv] re what tv card to buy in australia to use with knoppmyth

Tom Hughes tom at compton.nu
Thu Jul 14 07:10:07 EDT 2005


In message <58BFFE12-5AF8-4349-AB40-F26EB6AFF503 at mattp.name>
        Matthew Phillips <mythtv at mattp.name> wrote:

> On 14/07/2005, at 7:34 PM, Jon Whitear wrote:
>
>> I have an Ultraview card (which is a Dvico Fusion HDTV Lite) and a
>> VisionPlus DVB-T card. The dvico gives me very good signal strength
>> and SNR, while the VisionPlus gives very poor signal strength and
>> SNR. I'm in Lane Cove, lower north shore, Sydney, so my signal
>> _should_ be pretty good.
>
> This is slightly OT, but I have a VisionPlus and have *never seen the
> reported SNR actually change*. I also seem to recall seeing comments
> to the effect that the SNR reporting isn't working properly for the
> VP. My experience is that I've had zero problems receiving all
> channels even with a very marginal reported SNR.

The Twinhan cards do report signal strength and SNR but they
don't report the BER or uncorrected blocks statistics.

There is no standard for what any of the values mean however so
you can't really compare values between different cards.

Tom

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