[mythtv-users] DVB in Guildford, UK...

[Jules Gosnell]

Julian Edwards wrote:

>On Mon, 2004-12-13 at 10:46, Jules Gosnell wrote:
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>>I'm just starting out with MythTV.
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>>I've set up an unused box with a Nova-T DVB card, installed FC3 with a 
>>dvb-friendly kernel etc...
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>>It took me a bit of messing around to get the card tuned in to my local 
>>transmitter - Guildford.
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>>However, I am still short of a few Channels (ITV in particular).
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>>If anyone has a complete channels.conf (to use with zap2myth) or db 
>>tables for this transmitter, or would like to collaborate on one/them, I 
>>should be interested to hear from them.
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>I'm in Guildford also, and I've actually found it better to point at the
>Crystal Palace transmitter.  
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>Can you get all the channels you want on a set-top box?  It's worth
>checking with something that you know will work as you may need to get
>an omniband aerial (you can tell what you have now by the colour of the
>plastic insert at the end - I think omnibands have black ones).
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don't have a digibox, but will be laying my hands on one soon - I'll check.

I have to look into aerials anyway - I'll be moving the noisy tower out 
of the front room, to make way for a quiet mini-itx,  and into my office 
at the other end of the garden - this will need an aerial putting up... 
Thanks for the advice.

>My Crystal Palace channels.conf attached for your reference.
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>HTH
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many thanks, I'll give it a whirl....

Jules