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

[Matthew Phillips]

On 14/07/2005, at 8:40 PM, Tom Hughes wrote:

> 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.

Ah, so my "marginal" SNR may actually be fine (I was comparing with a  
friend's card).

Thanks for the info.

Matthew.