Summary
The following is a summary of what has been posted. I may have missed some stuff but I think I got most of the important/popular opinions.
The number one request is DVB-S2 (And DVB-S) Hardware/Fast Blindscan
Support for low and high symbol rates is requested, as some of the current cards on the market do not support all common symbol rates.
PCI-e was preferred, second was PCI or USB (even though it has less throughput and may not be able to lock some feeds)
A Very sensitive tuner is requested
tsreader support has a number of requests
hardware decoding of 4:2:2 feeds was suggested, but if it makes it too expensive or requires proprietary software it is not desired by all.
Trellis Support had a couple requests (hopefully on a future card for under $500)
A couple requests for an ATSC tuner built along side the DVB-S/DVB-S2 tuner if this does not cause the price to go to much higher.
This was posted by Smith, P. for a future-proof card:
The card should support QPSK, 8PSK, 16APSK, 32APSK; wide bandwidth mode (40 Mhz at least), SR: 1 to 80 Mbps; input: -72...-20 dBm; input freq: 250...2200 Mhz; support DSS-3 mode ( DTV Ka sats).
The following is a summary of what has been posted. I may have missed some stuff but I think I got most of the important/popular opinions.
The number one request is DVB-S2 (And DVB-S) Hardware/Fast Blindscan
Support for low and high symbol rates is requested, as some of the current cards on the market do not support all common symbol rates.
PCI-e was preferred, second was PCI or USB (even though it has less throughput and may not be able to lock some feeds)
A Very sensitive tuner is requested
tsreader support has a number of requests
hardware decoding of 4:2:2 feeds was suggested, but if it makes it too expensive or requires proprietary software it is not desired by all.
Trellis Support had a couple requests (hopefully on a future card for under $500)
A couple requests for an ATSC tuner built along side the DVB-S/DVB-S2 tuner if this does not cause the price to go to much higher.
This was posted by Smith, P. for a future-proof card:
The card should support QPSK, 8PSK, 16APSK, 32APSK; wide bandwidth mode (40 Mhz at least), SR: 1 to 80 Mbps; input: -72...-20 dBm; input freq: 250...2200 Mhz; support DSS-3 mode ( DTV Ka sats).