Choosing a TV Tuner Card to Record Digital TV on PC

What is a TV Tuner Card? A TV tuner card is a kind of television tuner that allows television signals to be received by a computer. Most TV tuners also function as video capture cards, allowing them to record television programs onto a hard disk much like the digital video recorder (DVR) does. The interfaces… Read More »

User Manual for TBS6928 & TBS5980 On DVBDream

  Introduction TBS6928 is a PCI-Express interface DVB-S2 TV Tuner CI Card which supports watching digital satellite TV or downloading data from satellite on your computer. The CI slot on the board allows CAM insertion for watching payTV channels. While TBS5980 is DVB S2 USB TV Tuner Box with CI and CAMs. It is aslo equipped with a CAM (Conditional Access Module)… Read More »

User Manual for TBS6928 & TBS5980 On TBSviewer

1. Introduction TBS has developed two new DVB S2 Cards with CI and CAM interface. One is with USB interface while another is with PCI express interface. TBS5980 USB DVB-S2 TV Q-Box CI is one of our latest products for watching and recording digital satellite TV on PC. It is equipped with a CAM (Conditional… Read More »

How to scan DVB-T2 signal on MCE when DVB-T cards installed along with DVB-T2 cards

Windows Media Center not detecting DVB-T2 Channels with other DVB-T cards installed on computer. If you are using Media Center as your PVR, it cannot currently distinguish between DVB-T and DVB-T2 tuners .When Media Center first does a scan for channels, it will see DVB-T tuners from the other cards. Depending on which tuner it… Read More »

Channel 5 snubs Freeview HD again

Channel 5 snubs Freeview HD again Home of the Eddie Stobart docu sticks to SD Channel 5 is giving up on filling a Freeview HD channel, so fans of Celebrity Wedding Planner will just have to live with standard definition. Or go to Virgin or Sky for its Channel 5 HD offering.

TBS6925 Test Report: DVB-S2 MIS Reception with VCM/ACM

TBS6925 test report from TELE-satellite magazine 1201 With the change from DVB-S to DVBS2, a more efficient method was created that permits more channels to be carried over one and the same transponder. This increase in efficiency is due in large part to the significant improvement in error correction so that fewer error correction bits… Read More »

Broadcast to Broadband – Open Standards for IPTV

What is DVB-IPTV? DVB-IPTV is the collective name for a set of open, interoperable technical specifications, developed by the DVB Project, that facilitate the delivery of digital TV using Internet Protocol over bi-directional fixed broadband networks. The work is taking place in two tracks, where Track 1 covers delivery over managed networks and Track 2… Read More »