Re: Digital TV hardware?

2008-04-14 Thread Owen Townend
> > > > > > Im also looking into setting up a Myth TV box in the near future i have > some hardware already but im adding a bit as i can afford it. Its currently > acting as an apt-cache and will soon become network file storage as well. > So far i dont have the TV cards or Storage HDD's. > Do pe

Re: Digital TV hardware?

2008-04-13 Thread Leslie Gossner
Owen Townend wrote: > > > Sorry for entering this so late, but Daniel can you give me an idea of > what sized machines you're talking about? > To be able to record 2 channels at once and view a recording? > > I have bought 2 Topfield PVR devices, the first was brilliant till the >

Re: Digital TV hardware?

2008-04-13 Thread Owen Townend
> > > Sorry for entering this so late, but Daniel can you give me an idea of > what sized machines you're talking about? > To be able to record 2 channels at once and view a recording? > > I have bought 2 Topfield PVR devices, the first was brilliant till the > main board died and we were told it w

Re: Digital TV hardware?

2008-04-13 Thread Chris Debenham
On Mon, 2008-04-14 at 11:40 +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Mon Apr 14 11:12 , "Senectus ." sent: > > >Sorry for entering this so late, but Daniel can you give me an idea of > >what sized machines you're talking about? > >To be able to record 2 channels at once and view a recording? > > > >

Re: Digital TV hardware?

2008-04-13 Thread Chris Debenham
I am currently using a Hauppauge Nova-T 500 Dual DVB-T card in my Mythtv box. I can't remember how much it cost because I got it a while ago but I think it was around $150 or less. Standard Gutsy install and it works okay, no special drivers required - but occasionally I get usb disconnects (the c

Re: Digital TV hardware?

2008-04-13 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon Apr 14 11:12 , "Senectus ." sent: >Sorry for entering this so late, but Daniel can you give me an idea of >what sized machines you're talking about? >To be able to record 2 channels at once and view a recording? > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVB-T DVB-T is transmitted as MPEG-2 format

Re: Digital TV hardware?

2008-04-13 Thread Senectus .
> > On 11/04/2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I'm running a Yuan PG300 PCI DVB-T card (also called a Stratford PG300). > It cost me $55, and happily decodes all Australian free-to-air DVB-T > channels (including hi-def channels, although you will need a fairly beefy > PC to

Re: Digital TV hardware?

2008-04-13 Thread Morgan Storey
Next question which dual port tv cards are Ubuntu/Linux compatible, or someone has had some experience with could maybe comment? On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 11:31 AM, Owen Townend <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On 11/04/2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I'm running a Yuan P

Re: Digital TV hardware?

2008-04-11 Thread Glenn Davy
hey les - you using this? do you know if this box provide a video out so i can also go from pc into my good ol SD pal TV? Les Gray wrote: > On Fri Apr 11 9:48 , Paul Gear sent: > >> >> >> >Anyone know any good digital tuner hardware (PCI, USB, or >> otherwis

Re: Digital TV hardware?

2008-04-11 Thread Les Gray
Am Freitag, den 11.04.2008, 16:47 +1000 schrieb Glenn Davy: > hey les - you using this? do you know if this box provide a video out so > i can also go from pc into my good ol SD pal TV? Hi Glenn, yep, I'm a happy user of this unit. The box itself has no video out (or in). But I just use the TV-o

Re: Digital TV hardware?

2008-04-10 Thread Les Gray
On Fri Apr 11 9:48 , Paul Gear sent: > > > >Anyone know any good digital tuner hardware (PCI, USB, or > otherwise) > > > >that works with Ubuntu? I don't want to spend money on a new > TV. :-) > > My vote goes to the AVerMedia

Re: Digital TV hardware?

2008-04-10 Thread Owen Townend
On 11/04/2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm running a Yuan PG300 PCI DVB-T card (also called a Stratford > PG300). It cost me $55, and happily decodes all Australian free-to-air > DVB-T channels (including hi-def channels, although you will need a fairly > beefy PC to view

Re: Digital TV hardware?

2008-04-10 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I'm running a Yuan PG300 PCI DVB-T card (also called a Stratford PG300). It cost me $55, and happily decodes all Australian free-to-air DVB-T channels (including hi-def channels, although you will need a fairly beefy PC to view them). It works out of the box in Gutsy. Pre-gutsy you needed to

Re: Digital TV hardware?

2008-04-10 Thread Owen Townend
On 11/04/2008, Paul Gear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Anyone know any good digital tuner hardware (PCI, USB, or otherwise) > that works with Ubuntu? I don't want to spend money on a new TV. :-) > > -- > ubuntu-au mailing list > ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listi

Digital TV hardware?

2008-04-10 Thread Paul Gear
Anyone know any good digital tuner hardware (PCI, USB, or otherwise) that works with Ubuntu? I don't want to spend money on a new TV. :-) smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-