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Monday, September 25, 2006

Technotrend Premium cards very cheap (update 2)


I had found a shop that sells Technotrend Premium cards very, very cheap (49 € + IVA 16% and shipping) but where is the trick ? This cards are an old release from Technotrend called Data Only cards, but this cards are exactly the same as a classical SS1 with hardware MPEG2 decoder but without the connectors to extract the video signal.

But don't worry it is very easy to extract the signal from the card, it has some holes where the original connectors should be soldered, you only need to solder them and you get a full featured SS1 card by half of its usual price.

Here you can see a not very good photo showing the connectors, I will hope to get a better one when my card arrives.



I think the stock should be quite limited so hurry up.


The link to the shop http://www.soloantena.com/tarjeta-datos-p-1037.html

Thanks to tatxen here there are some images about how to get RGB and composite signals from this cards:





I had received my card a few weeks ago, and finally here is a photo of the card with video and sound cables connected. The photo has been taken with a mobile so the quality is not very good :( It works fine.

5 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

http://img205.imageshack.us/img205/8076/premium2qr0.gif
http://img65.imageshack.us/img65/3479/premium1gw5.gif

Friday, October 20, 2006 12:54:00 AM  
Blogger JoshyFun said...

Thank you for your images. This figures shows everybody how to connect the SS1 (this cheap one) to standard outputs using RGB cables and/or composite output as you like, of course RGB output gives you better quality.

This images are now added to the main post.

Friday, October 20, 2006 12:09:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Hi JoshyFun!!!

Have you received this cheap SS1 card?

If response is yes, can you please post a photo of it.

Thanks

Wednesday, December 27, 2006 1:03:00 AM  
Blogger JoshyFun said...

Sorry about my delay in answer. For this kind of questions please use my email address joshyfun (the usual @ sign) gmail.com

Yes, I had received the card a lot of time ago, it is working in a machine that's not here so I will post a photo in the main message in a few minutes.

Monday, January 08, 2007 11:24:00 PM  
Blogger tedy58 said...

Well man I have the SS1 card original firs release and this is very uswfull to post such a things here. I xould send You the original picture of the german site that I have about some tools to use RGB and SPDIF signals trough the pins that U shows us.

Monday, March 26, 2007 2:40:00 PM  

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