I'm looking at moving from Italy to the US in the summer and am trying to spend my time (while not highly preoccupied about health insurance, jobs, houses, shipping etc) trying to think through taking my VDR setup and Dreambox over to the US.
I currently have a couple of Hauppauge DVB-S cards (a Nexus and a Nova) and a Hauppauge DVB-T card in the setup for digital terrestrial. I am wondering in the US if I should go with ATSC or Dish/Direct TV (or both). I'm aiming for Rockford, Illinois which has ATSC coverage. I have three vomp boxes hanging off the VDR server which I was planning to take with me. These currently connect with RGB Scart to my TV's. Then the dreambox 800 connects with HDMI.
So, would the DVB-T card just work with ATSC or is it fundamentally different (like DVB-C is different to DVB-S). In which case should I get a USB ATSC dongle or two?
For Cabel and Terr you need a patched VDR
Also you need then a plugin to get the epg data over atsc
Take a closer look here --> http://www.fepg.org/
If you use VDR on Gentoo, yust enable use-flag atsc