DVB-T, DVB-T2, CA, CI, CI+

DVB-T Digital Video Broadcasting - Terrestrial

DVB-T2 Second generation of DVB-T
CA Conditional Access
CI Common Interface

CI+ Second generation of CI (http://www.ci-plus.com/)


DVB is the standard of wish the broadcast is transmitted.

CA is the card that encodes the signal.

CI/CI+ is the interface where the CA-card is connected.

DVB-T can be either MPEG-2 or MPEG-4.

DVB-T2 is always MPEG-4 and has a higher bandwidth then DVB-T to support high bandwidth (=quality)

DVB-C is similar but for cable TV

DVB-S and DVB-S2 is for satellite broadcasting

DVBSKY T980C DVB-T2/C PCI-E with CI HD TV Receiver

DVBSKY T980C

I ordered four T980C by recommendation. The four arrived as expected and the installation begun. My main HTPC had two FloppyDTV cards witch where replaced by two DVBSKY T980C.

More information about the card found here
http://www.dvbsky.net/Products_T980C.html

After driver installation (20131216) and a couple of restarts Windows Media Center found both tuners and all channels to be found.

Boxer CA Module

I ran the CA module at the time and both free and pay/coded DVB-T channels worked fine. Free DVB-T2 channels worked fine as well but not the coded once (like TV3, TV4 and Kanal 5).

Boxer CA+ Module

After some research I realized that I needed new CA modules, I ordered the updated Boxer CA+ modules and then problem started...

Only free channels worked with the CA+ module... I simply can’t get pay/coded channels to work with the new CA+ module. The same goes for DVB-T and DVB-T2 channels...

Update from DVBSKY support;

2014-01-09 04:10

T980C card supports CI module.

If your CI+ module supports CI down compatible mode, T980C can works with it.

If not, T980C will not work with CI+ module.

So... this is not good. It looks like this product will not work with Boxer ...