[vdr] Re: Other projects?

[Christian Berger <einStein@donau.de>]

Am Dienstag, 30. Juli 2002 19:21 schrieben Sie:

> Btw, is DVB free in germany? And how does it work with companies that
> give you smartcards to put into the receiver?

Well most of DVB is free here. There is one company trying payTV but they 
are preety much bankrupt right now.
We also have a lot of public TV stations on digital satellite.

> /Henric
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Klaus Schmidinger" <Klaus.Schmidinger@cadsoft.de>
> To: <vdr@linuxtv.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2002 7:02 PM
> Subject: [vdr] Re: Other projects?
>
> > Henric Andersson wrote:
> > > So be it, but until then, there is a gap of about 8 years, and I
> > > don't intend to wait until then ;)
> > >
> > > But seriously, if it even would be possible for me to get DVB, I'd
> > > had
>
> to
>
> > > pay through the nose for it, and then all I'd get is the same thing
> > > I
>
> have
>
> > > now, but digital, and I've seen what telia does to the feed. You can
>
> clearly
>
> > > see blocknoise with fast action scenes, it's even worse than some
> > > movies
>
> you
>
> > > can find on the net. So no, I don't see a reason to get DVB ... YET!
> > > :)
> > >
> > > Back to my question, is there any project like this but for analog?
> > > I've seen windows programs 'n stuff, but I really liked the slick
> > > approach of running everything on the tv. I don't need all the fancy
> > > stuff (which
>
> isn't
>
> > > possible either) that DVB provides.
> > >
> > > Maybe I'm asking for too much, I don't know, but it would seem
> > > strange
>
> that
>
> > > noone has done it.
> >
> > I'm currently modifying VDR so that any kind of device that delivers
> > am
>
> MPEG2
>
> > data stream can be used instead of (or in addition to) the DVB cards
> > used
>
> now.
>
> > Maybe that will be something for you.
> >
> > Klaus
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> >
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