STBs Tell You Nothing While Blind Scanning

[updatelee]

If your looking to just watch tv and dont care about the complexities behind the scenes then a STB is by far the easiest route. If your like me and find the complexities the interesting part, and want to know every behind the scenes detail then STB's are a waste and PC tuners are king. I'll have to look into adding failed lock tp's into my blindscanning portion of updateDVB, I had never thought of it before this thread but can see that being a valuable resource.

UDL

 

[Mr Tony]

You sit and watch a screen entice you with signal freq/pol/SR reports but the receiver doesn't tell you what those signals are, or how strong they are, or how close you are to locking them if they are using a format compatible with your receiver.

some of the older DVB receivers when locked on a TP would show the signal quality. I know the Coolsats would show signal quality when locking and if it was a "weird" format (like DCII or DVB-S2) the meter would go up but still be in red (green meant it was locked on a DVB TP)

 

[cyberham]

some of the older DVB receivers when locked on a TP would show the signal quality. I know the Coolsats would show signal quality when locking and if it was a "weird" format (like DCII or DVB-S2) the meter would go up but still be in red (green meant it was locked on a DVB TP)

I've seen my Coolsat 7000 do this. I wish this receiver supported DVB-S2 then I'd still use it.

 

[pwrsurge]

some of the older DVB receivers when locked on a TP would show the signal quality. I know the Coolsats would show signal quality when locking and if it was a "weird" format (like DCII or DVB-S2) the meter would go up but still be in red (green meant it was locked on a DVB TP)

The AzBox miniMe American Edition does this as well on both blind or transponder scan for DCII or other "weird" formats it can't demodulate.