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Daily Wibble Pinnacle HD TV on a stick
Friday, 2 January 2009, 20:25

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Point of order, yerronner

More technically-minded and less American readers should note that the Pinnacle thingy as linked is an ATSC/ClearQAM receiver, and not a DVB-T/C device, so kinda useless in Europe. Don't get all excited :-)

- The wandering broadcast engineer

posted by : Flibby Cats, 03 January 2009 Complain about this comment
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