Technisat Cablestar Combo HD CI [+ SMIT boxer CA] review. (1 Viewer)

gibman

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    hi!

    I just bought the technisat cablestar combo HD CI.

    I'm primarily using it for dvb-t in denmark.

    What can I say .. it just works :) so far.
    Far better than technotrend CI 3650 card that I'm returning.

    the technotrend could fry eggs, even when idle.. meaning when the PC has been powered off.
    putting a hand on the technotrend chassis and it feels very warm.

    the technisat on the other hand feels cool, or only mildly lukewarm.

    I'm using a SMIT manufactured boxer viaccess CA module with a danish boxer subscription card (300 dkr).

    So any danes looking for a working card to go along with the CI boxer channels (not CI+), then this tuner is just what the doctor ordered. The tuner is even semi-cheap all considered. I paid 700 dkr I think it was.

    I tried with the neotion boxer cam.. it didn't work at all. I do not recommend this CAM obviously.

    How I sometimes miss the good old VHS days .. nothing to worry about in terms of CAM - tuner compatibility.

    I did a 30min burn in channel-card test using "test channels" in setupTV.

    avg tuning time is 1440 msec.

    no errors.

    I used the the generic network provider with pause mode enabled (best of both worlds).

    It even behaves good when doing a full hibernate-resume cycle.

    now only time will tell if the card is any good.

    I did play around with the drivers.

    It seems I was only able to get the drivers supplied with the CD working.

    downloading the latest drivers off the web resulted in device could not start (error code: 10) in device manager.

    I did make a combo of the CD supplied drivers (ver 1.0.5.502 15-06-2009) working with technisat latest drivers (ver 1.0.5.702 20-07-2009)
    attached to this post.

    I could not hack the terratec H7 drivers to work with the card as discussed here.
    https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/threads/technisat-cablestar-combo-hd-no-graph-build.98090/

    but as I said.. the card seems to work ok as it is.

    /gibman
     

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    DKAKKOPFKEPOKFEWP

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    Har du prøvet om TV2 HD virker med et C+ Ca modul?
    - Eller kan tuneren søge HD kanaler?

    Har en Hauppauge HVR-4000 med CI modul nu,
    men oplever tit at Windows 7 fryser og genstarter af sig selv :(
     

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