[dundee] Digital TV in Linux

[Andrew Clayton]

On Mon, 14 May 2007 21:57:14 +0100, James Le Cuirot wrote:

> On Mon, 14 May 2007 21:43:08 +0100
> Andrew Clayton <andrew at digital-domain.net> wrote:
> > 
> > I've never really understood what exactly you plug into the card
> > when doing DVB? 
> > 
> > Cheers for reading.
> > 
> > Andrew
> I'm not an expert but I gather there are different kinds of DVB
> cards/boxes. I bought a USB-based DVB-T (terrestrial) box off eBay a
> while back. It probably would have worked but I then discovered that
> you can't get Freeview here. Bummer.

I'm seeing where my confusion was stemming from. For some reason I was
thinking the Hauppauge PVR 150/250/etc are DVB cards..

I now see they do a DVB-S and a DVB-T card. WinTV-NOVA series.

So if I got a DVB-T card I could get Freeview on that without needing a
Freeview box?

Still looking over the Linux DVB wiki:
http://linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

> If you have a satellite dish then I think you can just get a DVB-S
> (satellite) card/box and plug that right in. I'm not very familiar
> with satellite but I'm guessing you can't use a dish with more than
> one piece of equipment at a time?

Heh, I'm not overly familiar with it myself, it may be possible to get
a splitter of some sort?.

> *still on the bog standard 5 channels for now*
> James


Andrew