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From: Jed <jedi.theone@gmail.com>
To: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Cc: Linux Media Mailing List <linux-media@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: ideal DVB-C PCI/e card? [linux-media]
Date: Mon, 24 May 2010 16:39:34 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4BFA1F26.7070709@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4BF9717D.9080209@s5r6.in-berlin.de>

Thanks for offering your thoughts Stefan.
Any specific recommendations?

Ideally I want two or more dvb-c tuners in a pci/e form-factor.

If there's FW or USB tuners that are mounted onto a PCI/e card, work 
well in Linux, & are relatively cheap, then I'd love to know!

Thanks,
Jed

On 24/05/10 4:18 AM, Stefan Richter wrote:
> Jed wrote:
>> Ideally it'd be dual DVB-C, the only one I've found is more than dual
>> DVB-C&  is far too expensive.
>
> If you need two receivers but can only spare up to one PCI or PCIe slot,
> why not use two USB or FireWire attached receivers?
>
> FireWire ones seem to be out of production now though and weren't
> exactly on the cheap side.  OTOH one can drive up to 3 DVB FireWire
> receivers on a single FireWire bus; and for those who need even more
> there are dual link FireWire PCI and PCIe cards readily available.

  reply	other threads:[~2010-05-24  6:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-05-23  7:20 ideal DVB-C PCI/e card? [linux-media] Jed
2010-05-23 18:18 ` Stefan Richter
2010-05-24  6:39   ` Jed [this message]
2010-05-25 19:35     ` Stefan Richter
     [not found]       ` <AANLkTikStvq6xhdS-e5skEy0LiTMSEBntIyBcb_AK7tc@mail.gmail.com>
2010-05-26  4:49         ` Jed
2010-05-26  5:00           ` Jed
2010-05-26  6:37             ` Markus Rechberger
2010-05-26  7:01               ` Jed
2010-05-26  7:14                 ` Markus Rechberger
2010-05-26  7:28                 ` Jed
2010-05-27  4:37                   ` Jed
2010-05-26 15:33                 ` Jed
2010-05-26 18:24                   ` Markus Rechberger
2010-05-24 17:23 ` Jed
2010-05-25 16:41 ` Jed

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