stailus Posted June 19, 2003 Share Posted June 19, 2003 (edited) Some one test new SS2 card (rev 2.4 I think) with DVBViewer? Work or not? What driver model have this new card.? [it's 2.6b] Edited July 20, 2003 by Oliver Quote Link to comment
Guest Oliver Posted June 19, 2003 Share Posted June 19, 2003 Sorry, I didn't notice. (I've removed the german post and your reminder.) The 2.4 revision is still based on the B2C2-chipset and certainly works with the DVBViewer. I think they only modified some parts of the layout due to thermal-problems. But it is still not possible to use DiSEqC 2.0. Bye, Oliver Quote Link to comment
Guest hackbart Posted June 19, 2003 Share Posted June 19, 2003 well, may i post some more informations.... The current version of the DVBViewer works fine with the new skystar2 card. From channelscan up to Marfis splendid filter everything should run without a problem (this has been also tested with the cool usb box). The design has been changed a little bit - this means it looks more like my realtek network card - if you bar the new tuner. This means: a really slim design + a neat tuner (smaller than the original one) = almost equal card (since the "heart" is the same). I do not expect any problems - except the automatic symbolrate detection (caused by the new tuner).. Its a damn cool (in the truest sense of the word) new card.. Christian Quote Link to comment
skandler Posted June 19, 2003 Share Posted June 19, 2003 Some one test new SS2 card (rev 2.4 I think) with DVBViewer? 2.4 ?? On eBay you can even buy a REV.2.68 http://cgi.ebay.de/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewIt...&category=38865 See Technisat Announcement: http://www.technisat.com/en/produkte/produ...0fe7e5d42e42a65 In german: http://www.technisat.de/de/presse/pressemi...0fe7e5d42e42a65 Quote Link to comment
Klausing Posted June 20, 2003 Share Posted June 20, 2003 Hey, the DVBViewer options are a good billing. But i dont know, if the DVBViewer TE can do all this promised things, and i had paid only 35 Euro also by ebay and not 69 Euro. Quote Link to comment
Guest Oliver Posted June 20, 2003 Share Posted June 20, 2003 Ah, you know the game: With a new revision they always want to shave bucks. Bye, Oliver Quote Link to comment
Guest hackbart Posted June 20, 2003 Share Posted June 20, 2003 the Technisat Edition is logically slimmer By the way, the differences can be read in the english manual (part of the r5 release). You might also be glad to hear, that i fixed a bug which caused a crash on 2k after 18 hours of watching the same channel The bug was that small and perfectly hidden inside the code construct... Christian Quote Link to comment
Guest Oliver Posted June 20, 2003 Share Posted June 20, 2003 Here is a picture of the new revision. As you can see there's no longer a heatsink, even that chip is gone. Bye, Oliver Quote Link to comment
stailus Posted June 20, 2003 Author Share Posted June 20, 2003 New SS2 have the same driver like old SS2? I mean 4.22? Quote Link to comment
Griga Posted June 21, 2003 Share Posted June 21, 2003 You might also be glad to hear, that i fixed a bug which caused a crash on 2k after 18 hours of watching the same channel I think it was a feature. People who are watching the same channel for 18 hours must be stopped somehow Griga Quote Link to comment
Guest DAvenger Posted June 21, 2003 Share Posted June 21, 2003 I've heard something about 4.27 driver .... it should be released within two weeks Quote Link to comment
skandler Posted June 21, 2003 Share Posted June 21, 2003 As you can see there's no longer a heatsink, even that chip is gone. Does that mean, that the card doesn't get as hot, as the old Revision? Quote Link to comment
Guest Oliver Posted June 21, 2003 Share Posted June 21, 2003 Right, you got it. Its a damn cool (in the truest sense of the word) new card.. Bye, Oliver Quote Link to comment
Guest Michael Posted June 22, 2003 Share Posted June 22, 2003 /me has a REV 2.3 and i never ever had heating problems ! but a friend of me has the 2.4 and it is getting damn hot... you could really roast some beaf on it.... Quote Link to comment
Guest Oliver Posted June 22, 2003 Share Posted June 22, 2003 Hm, maybe the new model is really revision 2.68. The card on the picture above can't get so hot like the old ones, cause the "heater"-chip is no more. Bye, Oliver Quote Link to comment
rainerw Posted June 22, 2003 Share Posted June 22, 2003 Then we don´t know, if the 2.68 is cooler than the 2.3. I´m going to order one from eBay and then post the results. Quote Link to comment
rainerw Posted July 4, 2003 Share Posted July 4, 2003 Results: 2.6B is much cooler than 2.3. Quality is the same. Quote Link to comment
santope Posted July 14, 2003 Share Posted July 14, 2003 I just got version 2.6B from alternate.de. I never had a SS2 before. It works OK, does not seem to heat a lot. Signal quality is not so good. I get between 40%-60% most of the time, a colleague who has an Hauppage Nexus gets much higher figures. Still the picture is mostly OK. I think it has to do wit the power supplied by the SS2 to the LNBs. Do you agree? cheers, MSI Hermes 650 Celeron 2.0Ghz 256 Mb DDR266 Western Digital 80GB Quote Link to comment
Guest Oliver Posted July 14, 2003 Share Posted July 14, 2003 I get between 40%-60% most of the time, a colleague who has an Hauppage Nexus gets much higher figures. On the same line? I think it has to do wit the power supplied by the SS2 to the LNBs.Do you agree? No, that's unlikely. You should check the positioning of your dish and LNB. Bye, Oliver Quote Link to comment
Gioxy Posted July 14, 2003 Share Posted July 14, 2003 ...but don't worry... my SS2 on some channel with signal as little as 17% work perfectly! In fact the satellite signal is digital (DVB=Digital Video Broadcasting), so you won't see in the screen some eventual little error in the reception (maybe other service like TeleText or EPG can have some error, but who care? )... Cheers Gioxy Quote Link to comment
Griga Posted July 14, 2003 Share Posted July 14, 2003 my SS2 on some channel with signal as little as 17% work perfectl Really? That's amazing - lately we had a thunderstorm here, and below 35% I could receive no TV, and below 30% no radio anymore. If somebody wants to test it - there is a fine trick to simulate bad weather: Just put a wet lobe over the LNB. I'm not sure wether the signal strength is influenced by the LNB power supply - it contains an amplifier, and if it's supplied with a voltage that is too low - may be. Griga Quote Link to comment
Gioxy Posted July 15, 2003 Share Posted July 15, 2003 A thunderstorm? ...my situation was quite different... It was a very clean nightsky but I had to temporarily set my 60x80 cm dish inside my room, behind a large window, so having a very little but stable and indisturbed signal... Normally, with the dish in his position, I obtain between 35%-60% with DVBViewer (...but now I'm curious to control if the other DVB SW give the same number... yes, I know, is the result of a function call, but I'm too curious... ) IMHO is for this reason that the most important quality parameter of a LNB is the rumor figure and not the gain (if at lest you have some signal! )... Gioxy Quote Link to comment
skandler Posted August 4, 2003 Share Posted August 4, 2003 Here is a test of the new 2.6B card: http://www.gs.ru/si/SS2rev26.html Quote Link to comment
Guest hackbart Posted August 5, 2003 Share Posted August 5, 2003 hmm, interesting page it tooked some time to read the article - since my russian is otschen plocho - anyhow interesting. By the way the new tuner should also be a little bit more sensitive and i also heard that the symbolrates could be in theory much more higher than they are up to 40000. Christian Quote Link to comment
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