[linux-dvb] Re: Check this out Australia

[Malcolm Caldwell <malcolm.caldwell@ntu.edu.au>]

On Mon, 2002-09-16 at 14:41, Dylan D wrote:
> On Mon, 2002-09-16 at 14:05, Douglas Kosovic wrote:
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> I wasn't aware of there being any pay services on digital tv as of such
> in Australia Yet? though i could be wrong from what i have been reading
> Australia has set law that prohibits any pay services from using dvb-t
> till 2010 so free to air have some time to improve there digital before
> everyone just buys pay-tv.
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> Also Yeah SBS is the only uhf channel in Australia all others are VHF
> thats why nova-t isnt suitable for Australia unless u only wanna watch
> SBS. 

This is not quite true.  Remember that a digital broadcast of a
particular channel (eg channel 9) will not be on the same channel as the
existing analogue channel.

So while your statement is is true for the capital cities it is not true
for the many parts of Australia.  For example here in Darwin, in
analogue we have 2 UHF and 2 VHF channels yet for digital all channels
assigned are UHF.

For more information see
http://www.aba.gov.au/tv/digitaltv/viewer/channels.htm

So many parts of Australia may be able to use the existing cards except
for the issue that we use a different channel separation here in
Australia.  No one knows for sure if this will be a problem or not.

> questions though. 
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> This card is PCMCIA in theory this will work in a Desktop computer with
> PCMCIA to isa/pci apator ?
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> Also This card doesnt have mpeg decoder so software decoding is
> required.. My question is 2 dvb cards are required to do
> recording/playing of livetv. So would that require 1 at1 card and
> another type of card ? or would 2 be sufficent ?
> Also if another card is required for recording would it require one that
> has same attributes as this card ? ie 7mhz , UHF/VHF support or will any
> card work as its only recording ??
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> > Hi Navin,
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> > Navin Daryanani wrote:
> > > hmmm... They don't have access to PayTV channels. On FTA.
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> > All SDTV and HDTV DVB-t transmissions in Australia are FTA, so if you 
> > are only interested in terrestrial broadcasts your point isn't an issue.
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> > One of the key points the original poster made is that the DTV-A1 has 
> > support for VHF DVB-t broadcasts. Products like the Hauppauge Nova-t 
> > aren't suitable for Australia as they only supports UHF.
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> > > How many (and what) FTA channels can we receive via a 90cm satellite dish in 
> > > Sydney? Just curious...
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> > Not many.
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> > > On Sun, 15 Sep 2002 04:44 pm, Dylan D wrote:
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> > >>Check this card out
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> > >>http://www.plaindigital.com/products/index.html
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> > >>It has support for 7,9,9 frequency and support for vhf and uhf ..
> > >>Also it support dvb-s dvb-t
> > >>it also clains support for linux ...
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> > Doug.
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