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| Thread ID: 80798 | 2007-07-05 10:46:00 | The Free to Air TV. | Poppa John (284) | PC World Chat |
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| 566138 | 2007-07-29 23:48:00 | So if I maybe got a 75/90cm dish off trademe and plugged it into my Hauppauge PVR-350 i could potentially get some good results? I see a few models there for sale. Possibly one with 2 or 3 LNB's for more than one satellite. www.hauppauge.com Any suggestions? |
Bantu (52) | ||
| 566139 | 2007-07-30 01:26:00 | But isn't that because your customer has only an analogue TV? If he had a proper digital TV - it would be awesome etc? I don’t know if you’re getting confused between CRTs, and Flat Panel LCD, Plasmas screens. Just in case…. Analogue TV is basically a TV with a analogue tuner A Digital TV would have a Digital Tuner. AFAIK Digital TVs for the general public haven’t arrived here yet, Sony are expecting theirs to be here in 2009. So you won't need a STB for DVB. STBs asides from being decoders are basically Digital Tuners, and the only way to keep the signal digital is to use a DVI or HDMI cable, connecting the STB to the TV. Using Component, Scart, RGB, Composite or SVHS cabling is analogue transmission So there for you are in fact watching TV in analogue. AFAIK there are no STBs with HDMI yet available in NZ- well not Sky or Freeview anyways. If you were to use a DVB TV Tuner card for your comp you would be watching true digital TV. |
radium (8645) | ||
| 566140 | 2007-07-30 01:27:00 | Taken from Wiki "However, DTV picture technology is still in its early stages. DTV images have some picture defects that are not present on analog television or motion picture cinema, due to present-day limitations of bandwidth and compression "algorithms such as MPEG-2. en.wikipedia.org |
radium (8645) | ||
| 566141 | 2007-07-30 04:44:00 | So if I maybe got a 75/90cm dish off trademe and plugged it into my Hauppauge PVR-350 i could potentially get some good results? I see a few models there for sale. Possibly one with 2 or 3 LNB's for more than one satellite. www.hauppauge.com Any suggestions? Don't think the PVR350 is a DVB-S card so it won't work by connecting it to a satellite dish. It looks like it is only for cable or analog TV. I got my DVB-S card from this guy: www.trademe.co.nz |
CYaBro (73) | ||
| 566142 | 2007-07-30 05:21:00 | CYaBro yep I see that it is not DVB-* now. Might have to get something else. Maybe Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-4000 will do the job. I have dealer access to Hauppauge but not to Sat Dishes. Not sure exactly what I need for that part. |
Bantu (52) | ||
| 566143 | 2007-07-30 05:57:00 | CYaBro yep I see that it is not DVB-* now. Might have to get something else. Maybe Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-4000 will do the job. I have dealer access to Hauppauge but not to Sat Dishes. Not sure exactly what I need for that part. Yea the HVR-4000 looks like a great card but I have not seen it available in NZ yet. You could try someone like TradeTech (http://www.tradetech.co.nz/) for dealer pricing on sat dishes. |
CYaBro (73) | ||
| 566144 | 2007-07-30 06:09:00 | HVR-4000 ETA 10 August. RRP $267.75 incl gst. Will try Tradetech, thank you. |
Bantu (52) | ||
| 566145 | 2007-07-30 06:21:00 | Also Computer Dynamics (http://www.cdlnz.com) have a 65cm dish available and other freeview items. | CYaBro (73) | ||
| 566146 | 2007-07-30 06:22:00 | ... My response: "Well they lied. it's not high quality, it arn't crystal clear, and it's not truly digital because the STB converts it back to an analogue signal” Advertisers lying? They wouldn't do that would they? :D | Graham L (2) | ||
| 566147 | 2007-07-31 03:57:00 | I got my DVB-S card from this guy: www.trademe.co.nz Thanks for that link - thats what I've been looking for for a while! Save $$$, make recording easy, and can still watch everything on the TV using the s-video output on my graphics card. Triple Whammy.:thumbs: |
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