From: "Rami R�s�nen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > One thing.. Does it support both QAM-64 and QAM-128 modulation? > I think they use them both here in Finland.
The VES1820 demodulator found on all cable cards I know (Siemens, TechnoTrend, both full-featured and budget models) support QAM-128, but I heard it can be quite hard to get good reception, because QAM-128 requires excellent line quality... > That's not a problem, I'm not using VDR. Maybe I should buy a DVB-C > budget and use Nexus DVB-S for MPEG-2 decoding? Maybe that would > consume some CPU power too and increase instability too much. :( FWIW, I have had a Siemens-Cable card for a few years, but since it failed to make me happy, I recently got myself a DVB-Cable Budget card for 99 Euros. Software MPEG-2 decoding eats CPU power, but only about 30% on my Celeron-1400, and less than 10% on a pentium 4 3,06GHz (measured on Windows 2000 and Windows XP, though;)... Regards, -- Robert Schlabbach e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Berlin, Germany -- Info: To unsubscribe send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe linux-dvb" as subject.
