DVB-T Cards

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Technisat AirStar 2 DVB-T

AU $69

Especially recommended for our Linux and Media Center Customers

Equipment characteristics

Reception of digital DVB-T television, radio channels and teletext
Reception of data services via antenna (Multicast/Unicast, MPE)
Plug & Play
PCI card
Input Frequencies
VHF: 174 - 230 MHz
UHF: 471 - 860 MHz
RF-level: -65 to -20 dBm
Channel Bandwidth: 7/8 MHz

Bundled with DVB Viewer TE a great DVB application

Specifications

Input Connections	1x Coax Antenna/ 1x Antenna pass thru output Please note: the AirStar 2 provides a 5V/30mA current on the RF in for small active antennas. If you use an antenna that creates a short circuit on the RF in, the tuner will be disabled and you will not be able to scan anything. In such cases, you are advised to use a DC-Block between the AirStar and the antenna used.
Minimum System Requirements	DxVA based VGA cards Pentium 3 700MHz or faster for SD, Pentium 4 1.6GHz or faster (ATI Radeon series, Nvidia MX4, FX, 6000 series) Non-DxVA based VGA cards Pentium 4 1.6GHz or faster with 128M memory Almost all recent VGAs All systems 1 available PCI slot (avoid using the one directly under AGP graphic card) DDR266 or faster memory UDMA66 IDE controller-HDD for recording Requires one PCI slot Sound card with S/PDIF input(optional) WindowsME, WindowsXP or Windows2000
Included software	Drivers Technisat AirStar 2 Windows software and drivers are to be downloaded from here

Input Connections

1x Coax Antenna/ 1x Antenna pass thru output

Please note: the AirStar 2 provides a 5V/30mA current on the RF in for small
active antennas. If you use an antenna that creates a short circuit on the RF in, the tuner will be disabled and you will not be able to scan anything. In such cases, you are advised to use a DC-Block between the AirStar and the antenna used.

Minimum System Requirements

DxVA based VGA cards

Pentium 3 700MHz or faster for SD, Pentium 4 1.6GHz or faster (ATI Radeon series, Nvidia MX4, FX, 6000 series)

Non-DxVA based VGA cards

Pentium 4 1.6GHz or faster with 128M memory

Almost all recent VGAs

All systems

1 available PCI slot (avoid using the one directly under AGP graphic card)

DDR266 or faster memory

UDMA66 IDE controller-HDD for recording

Requires one PCI slot

Sound card with S/PDIF input(optional)

WindowsME, WindowsXP or Windows2000

Included software

Drivers

Technisat AirStar 2 Windows software and drivers are to be downloaded from here

Check out these free tools for the AirStar 2 http://www.dvbviewer.com/en/index.php?page=downloads