On 1/17/06, Steve Adeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 17 January 2006 19:37, Greg Estabrooks wrote: > > > how do you get this information from the Dish receiver to the PC? > > > > EIT information comes from a DVB card, not from a receiver. In > > my uncles case he is using a spare dvb card I had laying around to get the > > listings data and it's being recorded from his receiver with a pvr250. > > He has no net connection that could be used to get listings from zap2it, > > so this gets him his listings. > > > > ah, wasn't aware you could connect to Dish's satelites with a DVB card. Could > you get a card reader for the computer and use the DVB card to tune the Dish > channels you subscribe to?
Yes. That's called a CAM (Conditional Access Module), and some Satellite-DVB cards support them. In Thoery, you can also use an emulated CAM (A so-called "Soft CAM"), but they are illegal in the US. -- Robert "Anaerin" Johnston _______________________________________________ mythtv-dev mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-dev
