From owner-freebsd-multimedia Mon May 19 11:13:51 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA08711 for multimedia-outgoing; Mon, 19 May 1997 11:13:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Ilsa.StevesCafe.com (Ilsa.StevesCafe.com [205.168.119.129]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA08705 for ; Mon, 19 May 1997 11:13:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Ilsa.StevesCafe.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by Ilsa.StevesCafe.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA27979; Mon, 19 May 1997 12:13:27 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <199705191813.MAA27979@Ilsa.StevesCafe.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0gamma 1/27/96 From: Steve Passe To: Bernie Doehner cc: multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: to be Philips or to be Temac (Wincast question) In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 19 May 1997 13:40:47 EDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 19 May 1997 12:13:27 -0600 Sender: owner-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi, > Making some progress.. Enabling AFC now let's me get aquire a few more > channels (although it's still jumpy) so I assume AFC must be working. Now > that I have AFC, I am about to play with the SYNC again. > > JUST one question, please only reply if you know the following statement > to be false. > > Wincast boards, use Philips Tuner > > Win/TV (PAL) boards, use Temic tuner. the problem is that the 2 tuners are almost exactly identical (I suspect that the temic was derived from the philips as a 'second source'). someone opened a temic and found it to be full of philips parts. so the bottom line is that a manufacturer might change from temic to philips (or visa-versa) during the lifetime of a product, thus the above statement could change in validity over time... --- > I am very tempted to open to metal can, but if I do that I destory any > possibility of returning this board. my first step would be to look under the wincast label to see if the original manufacturer's label is there. I'm not sure what cound be deternmined by looking inside the can, but you might luck out and find a label of some sort. -- Steve Passe | powered by smp@csn.net | Symmetric MultiProcessor FreeBSD