Jim Learmonth wrote:
> Just for info really ..
>
> A few years ago I bought a cheapo USB DVB-T dongle off eBay.
> It had all the bits CD, remote, small aerial, that I didn't use.
> But the dongle was OK and worked a treat with tvheadend on my pi2 plus kodi client on PIs and windows.
> It reported as
> Bus 001 Device 012: ID 0bda:2838 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. RTL2838 DVB-T
>
> For one reason or another I thought the dongle had broken, so I bought another off eBay.
> The new one was blue not black and a bit bigger. Still came with all the bits I didn't need.
> It reported as
> Bus 001 Device 017: ID 0bda:2838 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. RTL2838 DVB-T
>
> But the picture quality was awful, so dug out the old dongle and tried that.
> It worked and the picture quality was perfect !!
>
> Regards
> Jim
I'm not sure what you mean by "picture quality" as the device itself doesn't actually display anything! All it does is decodes a signal & passes it on to software.
