Simon Baxter wrote:
Hi.
I'm currently using a Nova-T card for terrestrial DVB, but would like to add a DVB-C card and connect to cable.
Yeh, that works like a charm.
Am I right in assuming that channels on cable are organised much like on terrestrial, with 3 or 4 transponder frequencies carrying 3 or 4 channels each? I wonder, because as the cable is provided by a single supplier, I wasn't sure how the channels are mapped.
In the UK at least, you'll find about 20 'transponders', each of which carries about 10 TV channels in QAM64.
Secondly, are channels that require CAM decrypting all generally on the same transponder? Or are these pay-channels interspersed with the free- to-air ones across the frequencies?
Yes, there's at least a 'BBC' and an 'ITV/C4/5' which are all FTA. Pretty much everything else is crypted except the TV shopping channels and the radio stations.
Cheers, Gavin.