Well, DVB-T will not be something that I will be using for quite some time. It should really improve a lot quality wise. The three channels we have today simply stinks, and it has nothing to do with the card or the software from Hauppauge, it’s the broadcasts.

I have never seen anything this bad! It’s worse then the VCD format, and that should tell you a lot. If Norges Televisjon AS continues the broadcasts as they are today, DVB-T would not be something for the future. DVB-T has a quite high bandwidth available, but the broadcasters in Norway and Germany seem to go for quantity instead of quality, and compress the channels insanely, so that they can get out more channels instead of a few with the neccessary bandwidth. I was watching the news from NRK on a projector with our A/V guy here at work. The camera man was zooming in and out constantly, and during the zooming the picture simply froze. It didn’t manage to follow.  Even background in interviews looked foggy.

Sadly DVB-T in Norway is a shame. Luckily it is still only test sendings, and hopefully it will stay that way. I will not move from analogue to digital on TV for a long, long time. Having said that, I rediscovered radio when I got a DAB tuner and listen to it every day. I have taken out my DVB-T card from the PC, uninstalled the software, and put it all up in the box with the hardware that I don’t use any more.