On Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 07:50:56AM +0100, Lea Gris wrote: > First of all, here's the Dish on DISH:
http://www.linuxtv.org/mailinglists/linux-dvb/2001/11-2001/msg00053.html > Even on Canada you have DVB-c on cable TV provided by videotron. Again, I wish. You see, our wonderful government here has decided that Canadians should be held ransom to a single cable provider in any given service area. Videotron does not service this part of the country. Cogeco does and I have already investigated their service. It is based on a proprietary Motorola system. > DVB-s is for Digital Video Broadcast on Satellite > DVB-c the same via cable > DVB-t the same via ground transmetters Yup. > These different kind of DVB all require different DVB card type. > Hauppauge provide the 3 types of reciever. The API part and drivers > remains the same. Its just the transciever part that differs. > So you just use the same linux software and modules to drive it. Yup. > For en encryption question we hav encrypted DVB here in Europe as well > for most broadcasted channels except for some few stupid tvmarket like > ones. Don't grin, they are fine when you try to set up your linux box to > recieve chanels. Does well as test channels ;) > > My Hauppauge CARD has a Common Interface module plugged and it just feet > a regular half height 3"1/2 place > > Inside the common interface I plug a so called Magic module and my Sat > compagny smartcard key in it (it is called CAM). Right. If you read the DISH article above, we can almost do that, except they bastardized the encryption, apparently. > By the way. > Even the PLF wouldn't suit for that illegal piece of software. :-) > So just do it the right way. > Buy the DVB card plus a Common Interface plus the plug-in CAM reader and > subscribe to your favorite SAT company as you would do to use a regular > DVB reciever. _If_ I could use a "regular DVB receiver" here in North America. See the discussion on why I can't even with DISH (the most DVB compliant from what I can determine). > Then plug the shiny iso sized smart card in the card > reader and enjoy watching encrypted channels legally from your sat provider. If only it were that easy. :-) b. -- Brian J. Murrell
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