[Gllug] Digital Television and radio

[Stuart Children]

On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 10:50:36AM +0100, Rev Simon Rumble wrote:
> Looks like the new "FreeView" Digital Terrestrial Television is to be
> launched at the end of this month.

*googles* Ooo! For those interested:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/2295625.stm
http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2002/08_august/19/freeview.shtml

Fantastic.

> The lineup looks quite good but the main thing that piqued my interest 
> was that the Beeb's radio stations will also be available on there.  

Indeed!

> The DTT cards are much cheaper than anything DAB related, so that's a 
> nice addition.

ISTR Wavefinder (is that right?) cards going relatively cheap somewhere a 
while ago... those looked pretty nice but I think I couldn't really 
justify it at the time. Did their manufacturer go under or something? 
Don't have time to look up the details right now. It is a shame the DTT 
cards don't do DAB. I don't know enough about the technologies to know if 
this is reasonable...

> Does anyone have the DTT stuff working?  What cards are well supported
> under Linux?  Do they work with the radio stuff?

I am *very* interested in this too. I know a couple of people with 
Hauppage Nova-T's and I've been thinking about getting one for a while. 
This announcement (especially as you say with the radio stations) makes me 
pretty definite. The Nova-T is capable of doing radio (not DAB) I know. I 
also know of one being used to capture video on Linux so at least some 
support is there.

Any ideas on other cards around, or coming out soon that might be worth 
waiting for (Christmas present :])?

-- 
Stuart

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