Re: [linux-dvb] Recieving DVB-C with DVB-T units

2009-08-05 Thread Christian Wattengård
On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 11:59 AM, Tim Williams wrote: > On Wed, 5 Aug 2009, Christian Wattengård wrote: > >> Ok. Too bad. Then why are DVB-T units, that needs more technology, >> half the price of DVB-C units... Annoys me... :) > > That's probably down to economies of scale. Most people who have cab

Re: [linux-dvb] Recieving DVB-C with DVB-T units

2009-08-05 Thread Tim Williams
On Wed, 5 Aug 2009, Christian Wattengård wrote: Ok. Too bad. Then why are DVB-T units, that needs more technology, half the price of DVB-C units... Annoys me... :) That's probably down to economies of scale. Most people who have cable will have been supplied with a receiver box by their cable

Re: [linux-dvb] Recieving DVB-C with DVB-T units

2009-08-04 Thread Tim Williams
On Tue, 4 Aug 2009, Christian Wattengård wrote: But after doing some research on Wikipedia and such, I can't figure out why a DVB-T unit can't be easily modified to recieve DVB-C? They use the same frequencies, the DVB-T specs support QAM (atleast low QAM). My specific cable network uses 64QAM w