Re: [nottingham] LWE New York

From: Toby Jaffey (toby@earth.li)
Date: Sun 20 Jan 2002 - 19:03:57 GMT


On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 10:20:49AM +0000, Matthew Walton wrote:
> On Sun, 2002-01-20 at 09:08, Toby Jaffey wrote:

> > Mmmm... DVB-T card. I wouldn't mind one of them, but, they're just too
> > expensive at the moment. I'm getting a DVB-S card soon to play with at
> > work though.

[snip]

> Don't know for sure how well they work on Linux either, although
> I believe it's basically supported.

http://www.linuxstb.org/dvb-t/
http://www.linuxtv.org/news/martin/dvb-t.xml

Apparently it works. The Hauppauge cards (ie. the Nova) have no MPEG
decoder, it all happens in software. But, I'd probably pull the streams
out and throw them at my DXR3.

> And then the whole business with needing a decent aerial as well... *
> wishes for rooftop aerial access from room *

True. When Digital TV is bad, it's very bad...

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