Note:
1) It is recommended that you add a Digital TV Antenna together with this converter.   The antenna is not the common&cheap one, but one  with built-in RF amplifier.
2)You can save 1USD if you add it to your cart while buying a digital antenna individually will cost you 15USD. If you want to know more about the antenna. Click here>>
3) The video system of this converter is DVB/T. Customers from West Europe, Australia and many other countries can add it to your cart without any problem, but people from other countries will have to confirm the TV system used in your country.  To save you the trouble, we cite a map from Wikipedia for reference. But you’d better check again to avoid unnecessary trouble. Key Features

Use DiBcom dib7070M/dib9080M high performance NIM chip with diversity structure

Speed over 230km/h min (at 8k, 64QAM, CR2/3.GI1/8,474MHz)

High Doppler effect correction

Provide antenna power supply function for pair use with mobile active antenna

Stores Over 1000 TV & radio programs

Channel list editing

Favorite channel list editing

Support USB Interface, mp3 and mp4

PIG (Picture in Graphic) support

3 Sets of video output for tourist bus and vent to install with 3 monitors

On screen channel information

USB for SOFTWARE upgrade

OSD Teletext (DVB ETS 300 706) and subtitle function support (EU model)

VBI Teletext support (EU model)

Fast scan for high speed driving and cross difference area

Wide DC power input from DC12-24V, suitable for CAR

1 set of AV input for other DVD/GPS/GAME application

Specifications

Tuner

RF Input UHF: 470 MHz ~ 862MHz
VHF: 174 MHz ~ 230MHz Input Impedance 75 Signal Level -78.5dBm ~ -25dBm Connector Type F type terminal x 2 Channel Band Width 6M/7M/8M

Demodulation

Standard DVB-T EN300 744 Constellation QPSK , 16QAM, 64QAM Guard Interval 1/32,1/16,1/8.1/4 FEC 1/2,2/3,3/4,5/6,7/8 COFDM Carrier Mode 2K And 8k Non Hierarchical /Hierarchical

Video Decoder

Standard MPEG-2 MP@ML Transport Stream ISO/IEC 13818-1 MPEG-2 Video Aspect Ratio 4.3 /16.9 Video System PAL / NTSC Video Output 1 ± 0.3Vpp Video Resolution 750*576@25fps/720*480@30fps

Audio Decoder

Standard ISO/IEC 11172-3 Audio Decoder MPEG-1/2 Layer I And II Audio Channel R/L/ST R/L/ST 1Vpp 47Kohm Adjustable With E Volume

Connector

Power Cable And Jack

6Pins:

1.DC+12~24V Input
2.ACC
3.Parking Switch
4.DC+12~24V Output
5~6.GND

IR Extension Jack For IR Extension Box A/V Output Jack Video:3 RCA Jacks(4 Ways)
Audio:2 RCA Jacks(R/L) Upgrade Port USB Type A/V Input Jack Video:1 RCA Jacks(2 Ways)
Audio:2 RCA Jacks (2 Ways R/L) ANT1, ANT2 Input Jack IEC169-24, Female F Type

General

MPEG ? Chip SUNPLUS 1002 With 32bit RISC ARC CPU 108MHz Flash Memory 8 Mega bit SDRAM 64 Mega bit Operating Temperature -10? ~ +50? Storage Temperature: -40? ~ +65? Power Supply DC +12V ~ 24V ±10% Power Consumption Running : 3.8W Max , Standby :2.5W Max Dimension 125(L)*71(W)*27(H) mm Weight N.W.?0.25Kg±10%
G.W.?0.71Kg±10% Accessories 1.R/C Unit
2.DC Cable
3. Mounting Lug
4. Screw Set
5. IR Extension Box
6. AV Wire
7. Active Antenna (Option)
8. Operation Manual

Preferably from either Avermedia or Hauppage, since I have a Pinnacle one currently and the reception is naff. An Avermedia one I’ve borrowed works fine and the Hauppage S2′s I have are fairly good. The poor performance of the pinnacle has put me off brands I don’t know and trust (although I did think pinnacle had a good rep!).

The two DVB-T tuners I’ve tried are both USB, but I’d rather have an internal one and I only have PCIe slots left, so my options are a little limited. The best I’ve found is the Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-2200 MC but this appears to be an old card (listed as discontinued on some sites, but still on Hauppauge’s site).

RE:

I’ve used the HVR 2200 and found it to be reliable with Windows 7 MCE, although I’ve only used the DVB-T tuners (post DSO the analogue tuners are a bit redundant).

Having said that I also have a Pinnacle PCTV Dual Hybrid Pro PCIe in another Windows 7 MCE machine and also found that to be reliable, if a little slow on channel change. I’m not sure if that is the same card giving you poor reception but if it is then I don’t know how useful my experience of the 2200 is. Maybe I’m just getting a better signal and the HVR 2200 will also give you similar problems.

The Blackgold BGT3510 is another PCIe tuner you could take a look at – it has a good rep but I’ve no personal experience of it. ISTR the website is blackgold.tv if you want to check it out.

The free-to-air DVB-T service will consist of Channel One, five channels from the All-Russia State Television and Radio Company (Rossiya, the news channel Vesti, Kultura, Sport and the kids channel Bibigon) as well as Gazprom’s NTV and Channel 5 from St Petersburg. Also included are three radio stations, Radio Rossiya, Majak and Vesti FM.

In addition to these national channels, a local channel for the Kaliningrad Oblast is planned. At start, the service should have a potential reach of at least 90% of the population. About 430,000 people live in the enclave, with three quarters being native Russians.

”We have definitely felt we have entered into a new territory with this set up. We have had to build our own transmitter to be able to start this, with innovative and affordable technologies from the Danish company ProTelevision Technologies and the Dutch company DekTec” commented Open Channel’s CEO, Kenneth Wenzel, in a statement.

ProTelevision Technologies, which develops and manufactures professional broadcast equipment for the global market, is pleased to participate in this DVB-T2 trial, where its DVB-T2 prepared platform PT2000 is used. “Our product is an industrial DVB-T2 modulator, offered in the form of a firmware upgrade. This means that our customers who already purchased our DVB-T2 prepared platform may upgrade their existing product to DVB-T2, “said John Ericsson, director of sales and marketing at ProTelevision Technologies.

”DekTec is pleased to see that its tool set has been instrumental to help Open Channel achieve rapid deployment of a DVB-T2 test transmission” added Nilesh Mandalia, VP sales at DekTec, a leading manufacturer of digital-video interface adapters for the professional broadcast market is a pioneer in the next generation DVB modulation with early commercial release of DVB-T2 technology to enable parts of the broadcast business adopt it quickly and affordably.

The background for the trials Open Channel is undertaking is that there is no room for HDTV on the DTT-net in Denmark, unless you move to the next generation terrestrial TV, which will provide double the broadcasting capacity compared to DVB-T.

”HD will within the next years be the new TV-standard, and it is therefore imperative that the DTT-net will have the needed capacity, so the TV-channels can be broadcast in HD. If these steps are not taken, the DTT-net will be left behind by the satellite and cable operators” according to Kenneth Wenzel.

In the initial phase the broadcasting is from a single antenna set up with 600 Watt ERP from 100 metres height (330 feet) from the TDC Tower on Borups Alle in the center of Copenhagen (the mux is known loclaly as MUXKBH-2), and the TV channels will be the same as the ones you can find on MUXKBH UHF channel 35, Kanal København, Familie TV and G-TV.

At the present time there are no DVB-T2 televisions or set top boxes on the Danish market, but they are expected to be in retail by the end of the year. At that time, Open Channel will expand the broadcast set up to include several broadcasting positions in Roskilde and/or Hillerød in a SFN net and the broadcasting capacity will be increased to 2 kWatt ERP.

DMB-T/H or DTMB (GB 20600-2006) is the digital terrestrial television (DTT) standard adopted in the People’s Republic of China (PRC), including Hong Kong and Macau. This mandatory standard covers both fixed and mobile terminals and will eventually serve more than half of the television viewers in the PRC, especially those in suburban and rural areas.The standard is officially called Digital Terrestrial Multimedia Broadcast (abbreviated as DTMB). The standard was formerly named Digital Multimedia Broadcast-Terrestrial/Handheld (abbreviated as DMB-T/H). DTMB is an outgrowth of work at Jiaotong University (developed ADTB-T, similar to ATSC, which coexists with DVB-T) in Shanghai and Tsinghua University (developed DMB-T, similar to T-DMB) in Beijing. Both hoped to provide the sole technology, but neither had the technical or political muscle to achieve that goal. The final decision was to opt for a dual standard and fuse it with the TiMi 3 standard. This was a direct result of a need for backward compatibility, because the adoption of ADTB-T, DMB-T and DVB-T for HDTV transmissions via set-top boxes occurred prior to the final draft of the standard. Therefore, DTMB became a fusion of the two aforementioned standards, ADTB-T and DMB-T.The data transmission methodology implemented by the standard is TDS-OFDM[1] (short for “Time Domain Synchronuous-Orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing”), which is primarily a multiple-carrier modulation technology, supporting both single-carrier and dual-carrier modulation schemes. According to the co-developer of the DMB-T standard at Tsing Hua University, the standard is capable of transmitting “acceptable” signal quality for HDTV receivers moving at speeds up to 200 km/h. The standard also supports mobile digital TV service on handhelds, a feature absent from typical digital TV implementations in Europe and America. In addition, the radius of the signal coverage area is 10 km greater than the European implementation, the DVB-T standard. As a fusion of three standards (DVB-T, ADTB-T and TiMi 3), the DTMB standard provides many of the advantages of each..Despite the advantages, there are also shortcomings. Because the standard supports both single-carrier and dual-carrier modulation schemes, and because it does not define default video encoding standards, the R&D cost and complexity of IC chipsets for this standard will be higher, leading to more expensive receiver products. In addition, TV programs bought from overseas which are broadcast in digital TV format may have to do a signal conversion that suits the DTMB environment, as the DTMB standard is slightly different than the original DVB-T and ATSC standards, which is less cost effective.It is worth noting that, even though it specifies a data transmission methodology, the standard does not restrict broadcasters to a certain number of video codecs to be used in transmitting digital TV signals. Broadcasters have the discretion to utilize any video codec that supports high-definition video, as well as systems for providing subtitles, Electronic Programme Guides and interactive features.

TDT Receptor, DVB T receiver, HD DVB T reveiver, MPEG 4 DVB T receiver

Mini multi media player+ Digital Terrestrial Receiver +PVR
Mini Digital Terrestrial Receiver
1.Support DVB-T protocol(ETS 300744)
2.Support EPG, subtitle and teletex
3.Support multi language OSD
4.Easy to use user interface with automatic setup
5.Auto 6/7/8 MHz Bandwidth switch
6.Frequency:VHF174-230Mhz ,UHF470-862Mhz
7. With ANT out Function

Mini multi media player
1.MP3/MP4 Player,support avi and Dat  format
2.PDF funciton:support jpg/bmp format

Programmed Video recorder
1.TV record to USB2.0 high speed HDD(FAT32 format).
Record capacity is 1.2GB/hour for MPG format.
2. the file saved by USB ,not SD
accessory: remote control without battery/ manual/power adapter