On Thursday 02 January 2003 3:52 pm, you wrote: > Thanks Gavin > > Interesting spin on the gov't's definition of 'free to air' then ;-) > isn't there a watchdog to prevent this type of behaviour?
LOL :D Do you really think the government have any power over someone like Rupert Murdoch? :))) > I understood that it wasn't an issue of signal strength, and that they > were having to use different shaped aerials The best thing is to just try it and see - no point in shelling out �70 for a new aerial if the current one is OK.. > - the chap mentioned that he > has a good view of the transmitter from his window, but still can't > extract the digital signal as it's transmitted over a larger frequency > range. It's not. Each digital multiplex takes up 8MHz of spectrum - just the same as the analogue stuff - that's the reason the ITC website will describe the various muxes as being on 'channel 57' in the same way they do with analogue broadcasts. > Any tips on what I should be looking for in a dvb-t card (eg don't get a > budget as you can't view the images ?) or are they much of a muchness > and I should aim cheap ? (who sells these damned things anyway?) In the UK, again you have little choice... The de facto card is the Hauppauge Nova-T retailing from dabs.com and the like for about �100 inc. VAT. It's a budget card. If you want a full-feature DVB-T card, Hauppauge can get them for you if you ask them directly. The catch is they'll charge about $320 (they told me why they quoted dollars, but I forget...) and take a month to deliver. So, apart from trying to source one of those, you could get a full-feature 'Nexus' card for DVB-S and just use the MPEG decoder on it... or you could get a dxr3 / Hollywood+ card from eBay. (about �20 -> �30) This is stuff specific to VDR, but there's nothing to stop you from using a budget card and using MPlayer / Xine to view the MPEG2 streams.. Of course, that's not really a comfortable solution for watching TV from your armchair :) Cheers, Gavin -- Info: To unsubscribe send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe linux-dvb" as subject.
