[Gllug] [Kind of OT] Digital TV

Ashley Evans k0210244 at kingston.ac.uk
Wed Mar 19 15:56:22 UTC 2003


Oh well, just a thought.  Thanks Doug.

Ash

On Wednesday 19 Mar 2003 2:53 pm, Doug Winter wrote:
> On Wed 19 Mar Ashley Evans wrote:
> > Is it technically possible, and if so, feasible, to use a regular
> > analogue TV card to capture digital TV info for software decoding?
>
> No.  Terrestrial Digital TV is multiplexed over many many seperate
> carriers, unlike Analogue, so you need some pretty specialised
> receiving kit.
>
> You could probably cannibalise a Set Top Box though.
>
> doug.


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