[Gllug] Freecom DVB-T USB stick

John Winters john at sinodun.org.uk
Fri Aug 5 14:55:45 UTC 2005


On Fri, 2005-08-05 at 15:13 +0100, Rev Simon Rumble wrote:
> Wow, these look pretty good and damn reasonably priced.
> 
> Anyone using one of these tiny DVB-t thingies?
> 
> http://www.freecom.com/ecProduct_detail.asp?ID=2234
> 
> According to this, they're fully supported:
> http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/DVB_USB#WideView.2FYakumo.2FHama.2FTyphoon.2FYuan_Boxes_and_Pens

Interesting.  If you change country you can get a price in GBP too - 60
GBP.

Presumably you need a USB 2.0 interface to use one of these things.  How
fast is USB 2.0?  A DVB-T stream is about 2 mbit - how does that compare
with the capabilities of USB?

John

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