On Wed, 2004-12-08 at 02:53 +0000, Allan Stirling wrote:
I'm now switching across to a dual Sky (Digital satellite) Myth box, after having played with Myth for a while as a 'test' platform.
An aside here, I noticed you talking about a dual Sky option. I am probably going to be moving to Germany in the near future meaning sky is going to be one of the few options
available to me. So I am quite curious about what you wrote. Is there such a thing as a dual tuner box
or will you just be joining two boxes together ?
(I have a three way DVB solution based on Nebula cards at the moment)
If you have time and motivation, could you say a little bit more about how your intending to hang all this together, such as capture cards and IR control of the Sky box.
I've now had 2 questions like this, so I'll CC the list for interest.
I've owned a Tivo for a while now. It has certain problems occasionally changing channel (I was using Telewest as a provider for the Tivo). I've always found IR changers at best picky, at worst unreliable. I recently found this web page:
http://www.cornelius.demon.co.uk/lirc-sky-rflink-howto.html
(Thanks, Steve!)
The RFLinks are quite expensive, but well worth it for reliable channel changes.
Sky (If you subscribe to one of the premium packages) is offering Sky+ for 99 UKP with no ongoing fee (as long as you agree to keep it connected to a phone line, but noone's been cut off for this that I've been able to find). The reason for using a Sky+ box instead of Sky is it's SVideo output - Normal sky boxes only have RGB, and it's not easy to capture that without additional spending, and the only other option is Composite (ugh)
So, I ordered the 'Multiroom' option. This gives you two boxes. One is currently a Sky, one a Sky+.
As an aside, I'm _very_ disappointed with the video quality using the CX8800 cards that I have while using composite. Therefore, I'm probably going to upgrade the Sky box to Sky+.
As a seperate aside, does anyone know the native resolution used on Sky?
Cheers,
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