[linux-dvb] Re: best TV card to buy?

[Matt <zagnimp@aom.bt.co.uk>]

Hi Paul,

Hauppauge is currently working on a sky digi box PC card thingy
I think it is due for release in late 2001 maybe Jan 2002.

The problem I think most people have with Sky is that
it uses an internal PSTN modem I think at lower than your 56k v9x
modem, when people use its SkyOpen for email etc
the modem is used even for obtaining data.

Until Sky opens up its Sats for broadcasting data
along with its Video then things may start happening.
But like EON (europeonline) the bandwidth will be
shared and as the BSkyB UK subscribers are a lot (5,051,00)
the download bandwidth will be reduced to a mear
PSTN modem maybe less than now.

Now they released a report on a new service
(I think in the Czech Republic from CESky Telecom).
If this uses the Sat bandwidth for download
then again its more useage over a shared link.

Most subscibers here I think use the Siemens
or Hauppauge cards (they are almost identical).
via an old analouge dish.

http://www.hauppauge.co.uk/html/DVBs.htm

Sky is also resticted I think to broadcasting
obligations so an upload to the sat link is
could also be out of the question. But I am
unsure about this anyway I think they
would need to replace the dishes anyway
if they were going to offer sat upload.

That would be of masive investment on their
part.

Perhaps someone here would have some more info
on this anyway its my 2 peas worth.

Regards

Matt

Paul Duran wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I'm looking to build a PVR and extra functionality
> (see media-box.org).. I'd like to do this under linux
> and have seen the dvb project.
>
> What would be the best video card and/or tv card to
> use for this purpose?
>
> I'm currently living in the UK and would probably be
> feeding input from the 'second tv' output on my sky
> digibox.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Also, I have heard some talk about realtime encoding
> of mpeg4/divx/opendivx.. Would a Duron 800 processor
> be capable of this task?
>
> kind regards,
> Paul Duran
>
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