Thread: Prof Revolution DVB-S2 PCI-E 8000 looks promising (DVBS and DirecTVTM QPSK)

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

• Powered by RF Magic
• 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

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

Originally Posted by enb141

The price is supposed to be $65

Sorry, but 97.50 USD + delivery.

Originally Posted by Stephan1

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.