[Gllug] [Kind of OT] Digital TV

Doug Winter doug at pigeonhold.com
Wed Mar 19 14:53:02 UTC 2003


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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