Tv Digital

Sometimes digital TV is horrible. The picture can pause, become filled with pixels, or disappear leaving a black screen with no sound. It’s not only the far away channels that show pixals with poor signal. It’s sometimes the channels that have strong signal and are high definition. It could happen a lot when the weather is stormy. Once a station disappears, it might never come back, and you’ll have to keep moving your antenna around. Digital TV is not worth a flip with pixels.

N/B: See instructions for Windows here Tested on Debian based Distros; Linux Mint and Ubuntu You can only watch FREE TO AIR channels using this method. In Kenya they include channels from Signet, ADN, Pang and Bamba providers. Excuse my black and white pictures, i had just changed my Linux…

Case in point: A globemax DVB-T2 Tv stick (see the naked hardware tear-down for the panasonic MN88472 here ) and the (hardware tear-down for the MN88473 demodulator version here). There are two variants of the stick with the following components: Key components: Realtek RTL2832P USB interface Panasonic MN88472/MN88473 Demodulator (2013 and 2014…

I wrote about the state of Digital TV in Sri Lanka in my previous post. I’d like to add a new post related to Digital TV this time around. Recently I bought a Samsung LCD TV 32” thinking that it has digital tuner. Well, my story goes as below. Recently…

Most of us in Sri Lanka hardly talk about DTV (Digital Terrestrial Transmission). As the name suggests, it’s a technology that suppose to replace the decades old analogue television signals that we still use in Sri Lanka. This post is intended to increase the public awareness of the Digital TV. …

Sky launches new On Demand service in Ireland Sky+ continues to deliver greater flexibility and control for viewers at no extra monthly cost Sky Ireland today introduced its new On Demand service for customers, giving TV viewers with a Sky+HD box and a broadband connection even greater flexibility and control…

Broadcom announced this month that LG Electronics had selected its BCM3549 Media SoC (System on a Chip) as the core for its new line of connected HDTVs. …

Broadcom announced this month that LG Electronics had selected its BCM3549 Media SoC (System on a Chip) as the core for its new line of connected HDTVs. …

There’s talk in Washington of a delay of the transition to digital TV. I can understand the reasoning – the federal program that offered $40 vouchers for those who want to buy the devices needed to pick up digital signals, ran out of money. While I sympathize with the reasoning…