Hi!
Here in Sweden, the terrestial netowkr plan to change the standard from DVB-T to DVB-T2, which resulting in many tuners for Windows 7 will become obsolete. Does anyone know if there are Any good T2 tuners available on the market, preferrably those that work with a CA-module, like the floppydtv solution that many european media center users run today.
/henrik
There are limited T2 tuners available, but these are all for STBs. As far as I know, there haven't been any made for PCI/PCI-E cards yet.
Hauppage suggested they'd have a USB version out in time for the now-past World Cup, but this didn't come to anything.
Given that there are only about three countries either using or going to use T2 as standard, I doubt many companies would commit too much effort to developing any hardware any time soon.
I don't know of any yet. Am keeping my eyes open for them though!
I am on the lookout almost daily for a DVB-T2 card. I'm glad other countries are also switching over to DVB-T2 as this may help driver the market.
The most encouraging thing I have found so far is on the tranquilPC web site (http://www.tranquilpc-shop.co.uk/acatalog/ixL_i5.html). At the bottom of the page you will find reference to a DVB-T2 tuner that will be coming THIS MONTH:
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The ixL is an ideal platform for a high performance media centre with all suitable A/V connections available. To complete your ixL media centre please select from one of our DVB tuners. Please see below an explanation of DVB services available.
Ben
[EDIT] I have submitted a support request with Tranquil to ask for more details. Will post theb response if/when I get it.
Rob.
Win7, P5Q Pro Turbo, Q6600, GT430, BGT3595, Hauppauge Nova-hd-s2, DM500s, DVBLink.
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holidayboyGood news, I guess that means I should be able to buy a tuner when my local transmitter gets upgraded - in 2012!
I shouldn't laugh, but I did. At least by 2012 the market will be flooded with thousands of different types of T2 tuners and all of the bugs will be ironed out.
Of course by then the rest of us will be happily using DVB-T3 and Super-Mega-Hi-Def Freeview.
Seriously though, that's promising news on the Tranqil front.
In Sweden, freeview cards are useless because we can only get like 3 useful channels, all the rest are encrypted, and for that we need a CA-module. I guess all the larger manufacturers are focused on making set top boxes first, since that is what 98 % of the market is.
/Henrik
Just stumbled across this, bring 'em on...
http://www.wegotserved.com/2010/09/04/ifa-2010-hauppauge-announces-freeview-hd-dvbt2-tuner-pc/
holidayboy Just stumbled across this, bring 'em on... http://www.wegotserved.com/2010/09/04/ifa-2010-hauppauge-announces-freeview-hd-dvbt2-tuner-pc/
Good spot!
Initial thoughts are that I'd like to see a dual-tuner PCI-E version... available tomorrow... but this is an excellent start. I may consider picking one of these up just to have a play with until the internal version become available.
Does anyone know how this will play along side a dual PCI-E DVB-T card in Windows 7?
£100 is very expensive for a single tuner. In an ideal world I'd like to be able to do away with my DVB-S tuners (which are just used for BBC and ITV HD) and switch to a pure DVB-T2 setup. However, I would need a minimum of 4 tuners which I would not pay £400 for! If I could get twin tuners at £100/each then that would be much more palatable.
asm495£100 is very expensive for a single tuner.
Agreed, but it is 'first off the line'. And I would imagine that the tuners themselves are still as rare as rocking horse poo, pushing the price up.
I would suggest that by 2011, T2 tuners will be far cheaper and in many more configurations.
The DVB-T2 tuner coming available from Tranquil is a DUAL tuner. Its made by BlackGold. Tranquil have told me they don't have an availability date yet.
BlackGold have no details on their web site, so I have emailed them for details.
EBHThe DVB-T2 tuner coming available from Tranquil is a DUAL tuner. Its made by BlackGold. Tranquil have told me they don't have an availability date yet. BlackGold have no details on their web site, so I have emailed them for details. Ben
Excellent work, Ben.
This could be very interesting. I haven't used any BlackGold products in the past - does anyone have anything to say about their quality?
Blackgold have some problems - See here
http://www.avforums.com/forums/home-entertainment-pcs/1183026-latest-bgt3595-update-9.html
Interesting to note that DVB-T2 is referenced in the drivers for the DVBT / DVBS2 BGT3595