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TEST REPORT
04-05/2009
FLOPPYDTV
Versatile and high-capacity extension
to home PCs for HDTV viewing and
recording pleasure
HDTC PC Card
FloppyDTV
Perfect DVB-S/2
Solution for the PC
Most up-to-date HDTV
satellite receivers come
with Ethernet or USB
2.0 interfaces that allow
transferring recorded events
to a PC for post-editing
and storing recordings on
a portable storage medium
(DVD etc.). However, most
of these receivers regard
satellite reception as their
prime business and thus
do not put much effort into
making interfaces very fast.
Have you ever looked
at the size a movie-length
HDTV recording requires on
the integrated hard disk of a
satellite receiver? You might
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be surprised to find out that
10 GB is about the norm. So
wouldn’t it be convenient if
recorded TV or radio events
could be transferred to the
PC in a fast and hassle-free
way? And if you consider that
most PCs are connected to
high-resolution LCD monitors
while the TV sets in living
rooms still have a long way
to go before being 100% flat
screen it comes as no surprise
that DVBShop decided
to add the FloppyDTV card/
FireDTV box to its product
range. While all electronic
components are fixed onto
a single board in both products,
data transfer as such