Re: [Trisquel-users] USB Video Capture device for Gnu/Linux with Free Drivers

[chris]

The devices are generally designed to work in certain regions. I believe the  
DVB-T USB card will work in most of the Europe. The US and a few other  
countries (probably Canada and maybe Japan, South Korea, etc) will use the  
ATSC standard. I'm not sure which work where without looking up the info.  
There may also be frequency restrictions in place in the firmware/software.

This device for example that I'm testing right now doesn't work within Europe  
in Microsoft Windows unless you get the "European" version. It's an  
artificial restriction in the software. In GNU/Linux though it works in  
either place. The weird part about that is it has both chips so I would have  
thought it would have been more expensive to manufacture like that. But...  
maybe not. I'm not sure what the point of the doing this was.