[mythtvnz] TechnoTrend TT-budget S-1401

[Hadley Rich]

On Mon, 27 Aug 2007 21:17:04 Sam Hadley-Jones wrote:
> I've been looking for a low-profile PCI DVB-S card for my mother's
> mythbox (One of those gigabyte windows media centre slim boxes that DSE
> was selling earlier this year). Found one going for $65 on trademe - a
> TT-budget S-1401. It arrived today and I threw it in my box to test it
> out and make sure it's supported. It's plug'n'play in ubuntu! The card
> was detected straight away and was up and running in minutes. Reception
> seems comparable to my skystar 2 cards. It's actually sold in some
> countries as a skystar 3 (?)
>
> No one is selling these cards in NZ at the moment. For those of you on
> the mailing list that are importing cards from overseas, dvbshop.net is
> selling these cards for 44 euros without a remote. It only has a full
> height bracket with it but a handyman with some basic metal working
> tools can convert it to low profile.

I've been looking at importing some of these for the last few months actually, 
I have a supplier for them but haven't got around to it yet. Maybe I should.

hads

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