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Subject: Re: TBS 6980 Dual Tuner PCI-e card.....not in Wiki at all?
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Konstantin Dimitrov a écrit :
>
>
> On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 5:05 AM, Emmanuel <eallaud@gmail.com 
> <mailto:eallaud@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Konstantin Dimitrov a écrit :
>
>         hello, i can't comment on your questions about the Wiki, but i
>         made
>         the driver for TBS 6980 and i can ensure you that the driver
>         will be
>         released as open-source under GPL as soon as i have permission
>         to do
>         that, but compared to other cards at least even at the moment
>         you can
>         use the card in Linux and it's very easy to add support for it
>         using
>         the binary modules even to the latest V4L code from repository
>         and so
>         those "blobs" are actually not so big limitation.
>
>         also, you are very wrong about the price - as far as i know
>         retails
>         price is less than 200 USD, for example TBS online shop gives
>         a price
>         of 158.99 USD:
>
>         http://www.buydvb.net/pcie-dvbs2-dual-tuner-tv-card_p11.html
>
>         and i believe the dual DVB-S2 card with price of 1000 USD that
>         you're
>         talking about is the NetUP one and not the TurboSight TBS 6980
>         dual
>         DVB-S2 card.
>          
>
>     I have two questions for you: do these board support (or will
>     support in the near future) a CI interface for pay TV, and what is
>     the best symbol rate they can achieve in DVB-S2 (I think I need
>     QPSK only but could be 8PSK) RELIABLY.
>
>
> TBS 6980 specifications are:
>
> DVB-S QPKS: 1000 - 45000 kSps
>
> DVB-S2 QPSK and 8PSK: 2000 - 36000 kSps
>
> but i personally have tested DVB-S2 8PSK up to 33500 kSps and it works 
> fine. so, DVB-S2 symbol rate range is still better than what most 
> other cards can offer i believe, which usually support 10000 - 30000 
> kSps for DVB-S2. TBS are developing card that will support 1000 - 
> 45000 kSps for DVB-S2 (both QPSK and 8PSK), but i believe it won't be 
> released any time soon.
OK Thansks. I am interested in a DVB-S2 card able to tune to 45000kSps 
rate with CI support (yes my provider here did things so that it is hard 
to get rid of their STB :( )
The only one for now are the cards based upon stv0900 like the mystique 
satix, but I am not sure about the driver supporting CI.
Bye
Manu