Somewhat OT: MythTV / DVB in Israel

2012-01-12 Thread Antony Gelberg
Hi all, I'm about to cancel my incredibly expensive HOT Triple and get Internet-only instead. I'm not that bothered about TV but I do have a MythTV box lying around from the old country, and I'd be happy to see if I could get it working here.  It would just need a PCI tuner card or two.  As I

Re: Somewhat OT: MythTV / DVB in Israel

2012-01-12 Thread guy keren
On 01/12/2012 10:44 AM, Antony Gelberg wrote: Hi all, I'm about to cancel my incredibly expensive HOT Triple and get Internet-only instead. I'm not that bothered about TV but I do have a MythTV box lying around from the old country, and I'd be happy to see if I could get it working here. It

Re: Somewhat OT: MythTV / DVB in Israel

2012-01-12 Thread geoffrey mendelson
as for a PCI card - i don't have an idea, but note one thing: the government made a decision to use a different type of broadcast in their future HD broadcasts, then the one originally assumed - check this before you buy any DVB-T equipment. Do you have any information about this? All I

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2012-01-12 Thread Ohad Levy
2012/1/11 Eliezer Israel eliezer.isr...@gmail.com: No Chef wizards in the country? only a few puppets :) Ohad On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 12:41 PM, Eliezer Israel eliezer.isr...@gmail.com wrote: Abe's Market (www.abesmarket.com) is working on a multi-server chef architecture (involving EC2,

Re: Somewhat OT: MythTV / DVB in Israel

2012-01-12 Thread Ohad Levy
On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 12:18 PM, guy keren c...@actcom.co.il wrote: On 01/12/2012 10:44 AM, Antony Gelberg wrote: Hi all, I'm about to cancel my incredibly expensive HOT Triple and get Internet-only instead. I'm not that bothered about TV but I do have a MythTV box lying around from the

Re: Somewhat OT: MythTV / DVB in Israel

2012-01-12 Thread Udi Finkelstein
On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 1:35 PM, geoffrey mendelson geoffreymendel...@gmail.com wrote: as for a PCI card - i don't have an idea, but note one thing: the government made a decision to use a different type of broadcast in their future HD broadcasts, then the one originally assumed - check this

Re: Somewhat OT: MythTV / DVB in Israel

2012-01-12 Thread Erez D
On 2012 1 12 14:37, Udi Finkelstein linux...@udif.com wrote: On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 1:35 PM, geoffrey mendelson geoffreymendel...@gmail.com wrote: as for a PCI card - i don't have an idea, but note one thing: the government made a decision to use a different type of broadcast in their

Re: Chef Master

2012-01-12 Thread dyasny
On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 2:20 PM, Ohad Levy ohadl...@gmail.com wrote: 2012/1/11 Eliezer Israel eliezer.isr...@gmail.com: No Chef wizards in the country? only a few puppets :) Ohad I was wondering when you would step in :) On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 12:41 PM, Eliezer Israel

Re: Somewhat OT: MythTV / DVB in Israel

2012-01-12 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On Jan 12, 2012, at 2:46 PM, Erez D wrote: The difference between dvb-s and s2 are big. A dvb-s pci card would not support s2. However what done in Israel on dvb-t was To take the same protocol and just replace the mpeg2 with h264. So it is possible that A regular dvb-t card will

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2012-01-12 Thread Thomas Maier
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Re: Somewhat OT: MythTV / DVB in Israel

2012-01-12 Thread Steve Litt
On Thursday, January 12, 2012 07:21:31 AM Ohad Levy wrote: I'm a mythtv user, and I used to use the DVB-T broadcast in Israel, the quality of the broadcast depends a lot of where you live. What do you guys think about Mythbuntu? I like the idea that it just works (supposedly). Thanks