[opendtv] I have installed DVB-T
- From: Jeroen Stessen <jeroen.stessen@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2007 13:27:44 +0200
Hello friends,
I've just returned from 10 days vacation in Italy (Montecatini),
and on Saturday I've decided on impulse to buy a DVB-T receiver.
It's this receiver: http://www.anysee.com/eng/product/anyseeE30Plus.php .
It has a tuner, demodulator, Conax decoder and smart card reader,
all in a package of about the volume of a pack of cigarettes.
I have connected it to my home theater PC (Windows XP MCE) via USB.
It comes with its own viewer application, which is not too stable,
and it has limited functionality with the Media Center player.
This software takes 10 seconds just to change channels !
The only real problem that I have encountered had to do with low
signal strength. The receiver came only with a passive half dipole,
a telescopic antenna actually, and no suggestions as to how to
orient it (vertically !) and to what length to extend it (UHF !).
Eindhoven is irradiated from a 10 kW transmitter (per channel) on one
side of the town, and another of 15 kW is expected to be operational
in September. See: http://www.agentschaptelecom.nl/dav/index.html
So I've had some problems due to a weak signal on the ground floor.
Yesterday I have found an old Yagi in the attic, which I have
modified for vertical polarisation (two new mounting holes in the
bar) and installed on a 4 foot mast (a broomstick, actually) on the
terrace. Now I have a very strong signal and rock steady reception.
Other minor inconveniences were installing the software (easy),
activating the subscription (it is mandatory through Digitenne.nl),
doing a channel scan (for some 25 programs on 4 UHF channels), and
trying to stay away from the free pornchannel (PrivateSpice). ;-)
See http://www.digitenne.nl/pagina_49.html and below the signature.
So I can say that IF you have a strong enough signal, then the
rest of the installation process is a no-brainer. They gave me the
lousiest antenna that they had... But even an existing roof top
antenna would have been a problem, because those have all been
designed for horizontal polarisation and the new DVB-T channels
are all vertically polarized. Bummer that they don't mention that !
Picture quality is better than what I expected for ~ 2 Mbit/sec.
The biggest artefact that I can see is some loss of horizontal
sharpness. I can read that the horizontal pixel count varies
between 480, 528 and 704 pixels per line. There's always 576
lines, and a decent part of the programs is anamorphic 16:9.
Best regards,
-- Jeroen
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Per 6 juni 2007 bestaat het Digitenne programma pakket uit:
TV (per 6 juni 2007) Radio (per 6 juni 2007)
1 Nederland 1 101 Radio 1
2 Nederland 2 102 Radio 2
3 Nederland 3 103 3FM
4 RTL 4 104 Radio 4
5 RTL 5 105 Radio 5
6 SBS 6 106 Radio 6
7 RTL 7 107 Radio Veronica
8 NET 5 108 Sky Radio
9 Veronica/Jetix 109 Radio 538
10 Tien 110 CAZ!
11 één 111 Q-Music
12 Canvas/Ketnet 112 Classic FM
13 Nickelodeon/ AT5 113 Radio 10 Gold
14 TMF 114 Arrow Classic Rock
15 MTV 115 BNR Nieuwsradio
16 Discovery Channel 116 SLAM FM!
17 Animal Planet 117 REGIO RADIO (*)
18 Eurosport 1 118 Concertzender Classic
19 BBC Prime 119 FunX
20 BBC World
21 CNN
22 REGIO TV (*)
23 Private Spice
24 Tele2 Voetbal 1
25 Tele2 Voetbal 2/Planet Prime
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