[vdr] Re: What services are compatable with DVB

[Stefaan Coddé <Stefaan.Codde@pandora.be>]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Alessio Sangalli" <alesan@manoweb.com>
To: <vdr@linuxtv.org>
Sent: Saturday, April 13, 2002 12:53 AM
Subject: [vdr] Re: What services are compatable with DVB


> Stan Moon wrote:
> > I'm an American and want to build a Linux DVR box, I
> 
> I want to come there so I've already searched a bit to find some 
> informations about satellite TV in the usa:
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> 1) you have HDTV... european friends, you can't even imagine what HDTV 
> is, DVDs are shit...
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> 2) yes, there are DVB transmissions, NASA channel among them, 155West Ku 
> band. Watch on www.lyngsat.com or similar websites.
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> > Another question is if Dish Networks won't work then
> > does anyone think I can subscribe to a European
> > service and get English channels?
> 
> theer are two kinds of problems, the first only ethical, the second 
> technical:
> 1) they won't probably sell a subscription to a resident of another 
> country. But you can solve this problem in many ways.
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> 2) I don't really think that european-targetted satellites do have beams 
> pointing to (north) america. I had the opposite problem, I wanted to 
> watch Nasa tv from an american satellite (85West C band) but even if I 
> can see it above the orizon, it won't transmit to europe. You can get 
> more informations always on www.lyngsat.com
> 
> ciao
> as
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