Does Anybody use this

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Hi there,

Just got these products for my media center does anybody use them or have experience configuring them:

http://www.digital-everywhere.com/cms/en/index.php

I have the digital cable version and also got this cam to go with it:

http://www.hisat.com/twp/prod_detail.asp?ID=496


For anybody that does not know what these products they are for basically for getting you NTL digital to work natively with various media centers with no lose of picturequality and instant chanel changes

Any help appricated



Thanks
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subway

ive heard that windows mce doesnt support any cams,
but im sure the linux ones will run it fine.

hth, im sure someone will have more info than that tho

SouperComputer

Are you certain that it works with NTL? I remember a discussion where it was possibly concluded that the encryption used by NTL wasn't supported by this device,

I hope im wrong.......

8T8

Yeah there was a thread a while back about this in short no one is sure, it is possible to do what you want but with Sky as the encryption used is supported by certain CAM's but whether the encryption used by NTL is supported is another matter.

MCE doesn't support DVB-S (satellite) or DVB-C (cable) but these Technotrend cards trick MCE into thinking it is a DVB-T card which it does support and they worm out the Sky channels through that.

But I'm afraid that's all I know on the subject I did some Google searches on CAM's, MCE & NTL but nothing came back saying it would work.

A thread here says it is possible Media Portal will work.

8T8

Update; after rooting around a bit more it may be you can get NTL to work although I'm still not 100% sure on the exactly but it involves getting one of those TechnoTrend cards anyway.

Possible acknowledgement your CAM of choice works with NTL smart cards see this post edit: no he mentions a DVB-S but the original poster mentions NTL.

This is the other part, a program called My Theatre is basically a media player for DVB cards and someone has written a plug-in that allows you to stream the channels viewed in My Theatre to MCE, you even get the EPG for the channels as well (TT cards are in the list of supported hardware).
Info here & here.

If you were able to view the NTL channels in My Theatre with the TechnoTrend card then I believe you would be able to use them within MCE.

The TechnoTrend cards have an optional card reader which you'll need to plug the CAM into but it might be you only get the channels which are not encrypted in a worst case scenario.

The hardware isn't all that expensive so it might be worth risking it.

[TechnoTrend have their own software that plugs into MCE as well see TT MCE Tools it also lists their DVB-C card as compatible so their own plug-in for MCE "may work" negating the need for My Theatre and the other plug-in.]

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Anybody looking for info on what I have check out here:

http://www.firedtv.com/Forums/tabid/311/view/topics/forumid/26/Default.aspx

crowej

do you get 5.1 sound from these devices ?

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If you computer can output 5.1 then it can

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Actually lads I am going to sell the kit as I am nevergoing to get around to installing it. Put it in the FS computers section if you want to have a look