my advice is to avoid usb sticks like the plague: those silicon tuners don't have filters and amplifiers and are extremely sensitive to poor receptions and interference. Better use a tin-can tuner that is present in many older-generations PCI cards (my Technisat Airstar 2 is perfect) or in some older USB cards (like the Hauppauge Nova-T 500)
I forgot to add another nice feature of dvb usb sticks: very often they overheat after little time of usage, and at that point they begin to lose the lock on the frequency and to corrupt data
Interesting... I have had my Nova-T USB stick for about 3 weeks now, and with all my house guests lately, it is on a lot. I have had no issues with heat (it barely gets warm to the touch after many hours of use), and signal lock is rarely a problem - although I do have an issue at times, but that is more to do with being in a tall-building canyon where the signal is limited than anything else. I solved most of the signal issues by using a powered higher quality antenna... I don't use the little one supplied with the tuner. If I lock on to Eurosport (for example) I have signal strength between 52% and 64% and it's crystal clear... stays that way all day. Have they improved? I don't know... I have never had a PCI tuner card to compare to... I did have a dedicated tuner (one that connects direct to the TV) and it couldn't lock onto any channels at all where I live... but the USB one can... not sure why the difference... C. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org