[mythtv-users] Freesat, UK and which internal card ?

[Robert]

On Tue, June 17, 2008 12:40 pm, Paul wrote:
> Thanks for the information. I would be interested to know how you get on
> with your card, where did you purchase it from may I ask ?
> As I do not want to make an expensive mistake and buy two that I can
> never use.
>
> Paul.
>

I bought it from here:
http://www.dvb-shop24.net/product_info.php/info/p200_Technotrend-Budget-S-1500.html

But I've since seen it cheaper here:
http://www.dvbshop.net/index.php/cat/c5_Budget-PCI.html

Which is a bit annoying!

Robert.


> On Tue, 2008-06-17 at 11:50 +0100, Robert wrote:
>> On Tue, June 17, 2008 11:42 am, Andrew Williams wrote:
>> > 2008/6/17 Paul <thannet at gmail.com>:
>> >> I have the sad state of affairs that Freeview around where I live is
>> >> marginal to say the least, get so many dropouts with my Nova-T 500
>> that
>> >> I am considering going over to Freesat. Can anyone confirm which
>> >> internal cards work? Quite fancy the idea of HD too. Did read at some
>> >> stage there where issues with the EPG ?
>> >
>> > I've just bought a Technotrend S-1401 which seems to work OK with
>> > 2.6.24, I've not got my dish up yet to try out the signal but the card
>> > is detected and I have no nasty error messages.
>> >
>> > As for the EPG, I noticed a patch went into trunk last week to decode
>> > the EIT data. I'm not sure if this is going into -fixes (I've not been
>> > following the -dev thread) but i'm going to try apply the patch to
>> > fixes soon.
>> >
>>
>> As far as I know any DVB-S card that works with Linux should be fine.
>> I'm
>> currently using an HVR-3000 and have just ordered a Technotrend S-1500
>> which I've read works fine.
>>
>> In the past, I've got now and next data from EIT scanning, but I mainly
>> use xmltv to grab listings from the radiotimes website.
>>
>> Robert.
>>
>>
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