Cinergy S2 PCI HD : signal quality always 49% (2 Viewers)

[robyf]

Have not tried the CI but for the rest it's a great card.

 

[glenn 1990]

Are you guys happy with the Cinergy S2 PCI HD card? I'm thinking to buy one myself in order to watch pay channels.

I only had problems with it. TV always freezed after some hours, only rebooting made the card working again (for some hour(s)).
I foud out that the lnb IC on the cinergy was extremely hot > 150 degrees and then the internal protection switches it off (datasheet). I had a short cicuit in the coax cable when I used the card for the first time (maybe this damaged the card), but it should be protected against that. So I replaced the card with a digitaldevices cine s2 (german quality) and all problems went away.

The cinergy s2 is the same than the twinhan. .. and the technisat hd2, so I will never buy one of them again.