[vdr] Re: DVB-C

[Jan Ekholm <chakie@infa.abo.fi>]

On Mon, 16 Dec 2002, Rienecker, Fa. Evenio, ITS P, M wrote:

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>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Jan Ekholm [mailto:chakie@infa.abo.fi]
>> Sent: Monday, December 16, 2002 1:07 PM
>> To: vdr@linuxtv.org
>> Subject: [vdr] DVB-C
>> 
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>> Is there btw something special with DVB-C cards? I can't seem to
>> really find them anywhere. Most shops stock the S versions and some the T,
>> but almost none has the C version, and those that seem to sell it don't
>> have it in stock. 
>> 
>> I've so far only looked at the Hauppauge DVB-C card, I don't really know
>> of any other ones that would work.
>
>No, actually not. IIRC, with the rev 2.1 the DVB-C/S/T are identical except
>for the tuner.

Ok. What would explain that the C versions are so hard to find? Anyone
know a supplier in Finland/Europe that actually has them in stock?

>BUT, DVB is not that well known in cable environments. E.g. in Germany you
>will have next to no benefits switching to DVB as long as you stay with FTA
>channels. And on top of that the private channels are not distributed via
>DVB-cable :-(

In Finland we actually do get a few new channels. Nothing particularly
interesting, and we won't get rid of analog cable TV just yet. 

The alternative for us (if we want to record using a computer) is to throw
a lot more money at the problem to get some serious grunt that can encode
normal analog grabbed TV to MPEG or DivX, and that's a more expensive
solution that getting a DVB card and using the current home built media
machine for the task. 

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