Hi guys I was looking for the ultimate PCIe DVB-S2 card and I think I've found it and the best of all is the price


8PSK/QPSK direct conversion tuner IC: STB6100 (http://www.prof-tuners.com/download/chips/STB_6100.pdf)


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Direct conversion
Input range 950 to 2150 MHz
Supports 1 to 45 Msymbol/s
Fully integrated LO and PLL
Differential I/Q outputs
Buffered XO output to clock other devices
Low external component count
Low power consumption
2-wire I2C serial interface
8PSK/QPSK support
Simple interface to ST’s satellite demodulator devices
Low phase noise, excellent linearity and high
LO harmonics rejection
Small QFN-32 pin package


Multi-standard advanced demodulator for satellite digital TV set-top boxes: STV0903


Multi standard demodulation

Legacy DVBS and DirecTVTM QPSK
DVBS2 QPSK, 8PSK
Up to 45Msps DVBS, DSS, DVBS2 QPSK and 8PSK
Multi-tap equalizer for RF reflection removal
Wide range carrier frequency tracking loop for offset recovery

Dual multi standard decoding

DVBS or DirecTVTM legacy
DVBS2 FEC and framing

Interfaces

Data to MPEG decoder
DVB common interface compliant
I2C serial bus interface, including private repeater for tuner
JTAG interface for boundary scan
DiSEqC 2.x 22-kHz interfaces
FSK interface
Flexible GPIOs and interrupts
Bit error rate monitoring and reporting

Technology

80 nm CMOS process
Multi supply: 1.0-V core, 2.5-V analog, 3.3-V digital interfaces
Power saving features
LQFP128-EP 14 x 14 package, RoHS



PCI Express Video and Broadcast Audio Decoder: Conexant CX23885


PCI Express 1.0a/1.1 compliant bus
Worldwide audio and video decoding
Automatic video and broadcast audio standard detection and configuration
Flexible video input mux supporting composite, S-Video, and component inputs with integrated anti-alias filtering
Integrated sigma-delta stereo audio ADCs with 4:2 mux
Audio sample rate converters on all inputs and outputs
Two MPEG transport stream ports—parallel and serial
Two I2C master ports
Macrovision 1.0 detection compliant
Programmable VBI data slicer for data services such as closed caption, WSS, and program guides
Infrared transmitter and receiver logic
Auxiliary/Audio Phase Locked Loop (PLL) clock for general use
Support for MPEG-2 encoding when used with the CX23417


The price is supposed to be $65 :eek:

Mass production of Revolution-8000 DVB-S2 PCI-E was started.
DVB-S DVB-S2 cards on-line shop: Prof Tuners Group DVB-S DVB-S2 6200 7300 1100 7500 8000 7301 (http://shop.prof-tuners.com/?id=231&item=55)

The price is supposed to be $65 :eek:

Sorry, but 97.50 USD + delivery.

Sorry, but 97.50 USD + delivery.

I am new to all this... Does this card support hardware blind scan and 4:2:2 feeds? I have AzBox, but it is nightmare to make any recordings, so I am searching for solution to upgrade HTPC to PVR for feeds.

The codecs or media extenders one uses for playback are what determines 4:2:2 compatibility, not the PC tuner. The tuner could care less. In terms of hardware blindscan, the demod chip in the 8000 is the same as on the 7301 and 7500 units and I have blindscan running on the latter in Linux. However there are some issues in Linux that I have to solve before publishing this code. Prof has stated they will be releasing a blindscan capability on Windows in the next few months, but no specific date, yet.

I'm using the Profs 7500 and recording very nicely using DvbViewer, for programs that I want to archive. I'm using the Elecard mpeg2 codec for 4:2:2 decoding.

I'm using the Profs 7500 and recording very nicely using DvbViewer, for programs that I want to archive. I'm using the Elecard mpeg2 codec for 4:2:2 decoding.

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