What digital channels would I receive if I connected a CO-EX cable from a NTL cable line to PCI Satellite card?
such as this one http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/Produ...oductID=307336
What digital channels would I receive if I connected a CO-EX cable from a NTL cable line to PCI Satellite card?
such as this one http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/Produ...oductID=307336
i wouldn't mind jumping in on this as well, i want to run a cable from my sky box into my digital card
Hardware:Contrary to the odd name and translucent-grey color, Pocari Sweat does not taste like sweat
Main PC - See 'My System'
Server - Athlon XP 1700+, 1GB, 500GB HD
Laptop - Compaq AMD Turion 64 X2, 60GB HD, 1GB
Media Centre Shuttle - P4 3.0 Skt 775 Shuttle, 1GB, 120GB HD
NAS - 400GB
Home Entertainment - Xbox 360 with 37" HD LCD TV, Acoustic Energy Aegis EVO A speakers (5,1), Yamaha RXV359 AV reciever
Media Centre II - X2 4000+, 1GB, 400Gb Vista Ultimate
I know it probably wont work but if i did it would be sweet, eg sky sports tv in hd on your pc! without having to spend £1500 on a tv
a man can dream though, a man can dream
tbh i cant see why it wouldnt work, the way i see the general principal is my Sky box does the decoding, then im simply taking the feed into my PC
in regards to HD you'll need a HD source i.e. a Sky HD box and i dont think a HD stream can be carried by co-axial mate
Hardware:Contrary to the odd name and translucent-grey color, Pocari Sweat does not taste like sweat
Main PC - See 'My System'
Server - Athlon XP 1700+, 1GB, 500GB HD
Laptop - Compaq AMD Turion 64 X2, 60GB HD, 1GB
Media Centre Shuttle - P4 3.0 Skt 775 Shuttle, 1GB, 120GB HD
NAS - 400GB
Home Entertainment - Xbox 360 with 37" HD LCD TV, Acoustic Energy Aegis EVO A speakers (5,1), Yamaha RXV359 AV reciever
Media Centre II - X2 4000+, 1GB, 400Gb Vista Ultimate
none. DVB-T, DVT-S and DVB-C all use slightly different signaling. Does NTL actually use DVB-C? i have no idea. Also ignoring that (which you can't) that card doesn't have a CAM slot so you only get the Free-To-Air channels.
I know Sky use DVB-S for their broadcasts, and you *can* get Sky on your PC using a valid subscription card and a Dragon CAM.
The FloppyDTV units are supposed to be pretty good. You get ones for all three transmition formats too.
http://www.digital-everywhere.com/shop/
These are supported under MediaPortal too.
With regards to HD channels, there is no reason that a DVB-S card along with the right software couldn't decode the HD streams. You will still need an HD subscription, the Sky HD box (because they don't do Sky HD without it), a pretty powerful PC and of course some player software that can deal with the h.264 encoding.
Last edited by Funkstar; 01-01-2007 at 03:51 PM.
HD channels are broadcast using the DVB-S2 encoding scheme instead of DVB-S, so you cannot tune into them using a regular DVB-S recever.
If you did have a DVB-S2 recever, then you might be able to receve the BBC transmitions, as they are allmost certainly in the clear.
that makes sense. There are some S2 cards floating about, there has also been some talk of S2 support in MediaPortal. I haven't payed too much attension as i have no need.
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