Re: [Bdadev-discuss] Webpage and binary driver

[Jani A. <ja...@ka...>]

On Thu, 1 May 2003, Robert Schlabbach wrote:

> From: "Jani Alanen" <ja...@ka...>
> > There's only one problem. As I said to John, I can't compile any of that
> > code in the CVS except the driver. If you could compile and send me the
> > SimpleTV that would be great.
>
> No problem, but since SimpleTV simply [;)] tunes in to a hardcoded service,
> I need the data of the transport stream you want to tune in to, i.e. the
> following parameters:
>
> 1. Carrier frequency
> 2. Inner FEC rate (e.g. 2/3)
> 3. Modulation type (e.g. QAM-64)
> 4. Channel bandwidth (e.g. 8MHz)
> 5. Guard interval (e.g. 1/32)
> 6. Transmission mode (e.g. 2K)

Does the Technotrend's software give all that information? I don't know
where else to find that kind of information.

> > Currently he transmission area covers over 70 % of the Finnish
> > households. There are 9 national digital channels.
> Wow, and I thought the UK was #1 in DVB-T :) Looks like Finland is ahead of
> all the rest of us :)

The transmission coverage doesn't mean that there's DVB-T receivers in
every household. At the moment, only about 50 thousand receivers has been
sold to customers, so percentually that's quite small number of people who
can actually watch DVB-T broadcasts. :)

- Jani