[linux-dvb] Re: Australia

[bruce@staff.cs.usyd.edu.au (Bruce Janson)]

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    From: "Robert Schlabbach" <robert_s@gmx.net>
    To: "Dylan D'silva" <dylan@ozforces.com.au>,
    	<linux-dvb@linuxtv.org>
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    Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2003 18:14:29 +0200
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    From: "Dylan D'silva" <dylan@ozforces.com.au>
    > Ok i have asked this for over a year now so i'd thought id see how
    > things are going, Are there any cards that support frequencies 6,7,8
    > and UHF/VHF which is needed for Australia. TechnoTrend Over a year
    > ago told me they where in mid developement of a card that will
    > support these features for Australia, But i never did get any
    > followup...??
    
    Yes, these cards have been in the retail channel both in Germany and the UK
    for a few months now. They are sold as "Lorenzen SL DVB-T PCI" here in
    Germany and as "Hauppauge NOVA-T" in the UK (but watch out! Hauppauge
    previously sold a UHF-only card under the same name! The new UHF/VHF model
    looks like this:
    
    http://www.dvbtshop.de/images/big/dvb-t_pci_lorenzen.jpg
    
    > Anyone else got any advice , I've been waiting over 2 years to build
    > a VDR box here in Aussie :).
    
    Does VDR require a "full-featured" card, specifically with a TI AV7110
    set-top-box decoder on it? If so, this card will not work for you as it is
    a "budget" class card, i.e. it only has a receiver frontend and a capture
    chip to transport the "raw" MPEG-2 transport stream into system memory.
    
    AFAIK, TechnoTrend has not released a new "premium" class DVB-T card with
    that chip on it.
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The new Technotrend (aka "Lorenzen SL DVB-T PCI" aka "Hauppauge NOVA-T")
cards have arrived in Australia and work well under Linux.
I purchased mine from

  http://www.dpanda.com.au/dpanda/dvbtpci.html


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