[mythtvnz] TechnoTrend TT-budget S-1401

[Steven Ellis]

Hadley Rich wrote:
> 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.
>   
So what driver does this card use then? Also does dvbtune report signal 
strength etc. One of the issues with some of the cheaper cards is they 
are a pain if you need to find tune your dish as they provide limited 
reporting.

Steve