Receiving 60,000 µV... Gene Heskett: > And it was still snowy on the hauppauge card. Bin time, it also > picked up all sorts of digital noises in the computer, doing that > directly from the first install gitgo. That sort of thing has been my experience with all digital receivers (radio or television) - lots of noise. They're noisy in themselves, sensitive to noise, and/or emit noise and upset other equipment (so you need high-isolation splitters to feed an antenna to more than one receiver). And since the beginning of digital TV transmissions around here, just about all analogue signals have suffered. We used to have just six TV stations, four of them on the VHF band and two on UHF, with all repeated once more further up the UHF band. Now, we've got several more re-transmissions over the VHF and UHF band, and they interfere with each other. I don't think they planned digital TV very well at all. Years ago I bought a cheap analogue TV card, a FlyVideo'98, and I've never seen a crapper product. It had what'd have to be the world's worst tuner, though my Liteon DVD recorder comes close. And the world's crashiest drivers, you were almost guarenteed to lock up Windows if you tried to use the card. It didn't fare much better with Linux, the card would lock up occassionally, there was no way to get it to switch into a PAL mode, and it wouldn't use the S-Video socket properly. At the time, and for a while later, various TV card reviews in magazines didn't really have any kind words to say for any cards currently available on our market. -- [tim@bigblack ~]$ uname -ipr 2.6.23.1-10.fc7 i686 i386 Using FC 4, 5, 6 & 7, plus CentOS 5. Today, it's FC7. Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
