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DVB-S or s2?

  • 19-07-2006 8:15am
    #1
    mossym
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 8,766 Mod ✭✭✭✭


    About to purchase a dvb-s card for my pc. Was considering a DVB-S2 card, but wondering given the programming available is there any point. Seems that anything that is available can be received by the older one. I see BBC Hd will be going to S2, but it looks like it won't be decodable anyway. Am i wrong, is it worth getting an S2 over a DVB-S card?


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  • #2
    Kovold
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18 ✭Kovold


    I would stick with a DVB-S card as the whohle HDTV S2/H.264 is still a bit pre- mature and choices are limited.

    -.> Kovold


  • #3
    kramlq
    Closed Accounts Posts: 62 ✭✭kramlq


    There is a new firewire based external receiver FireDTV, with CI slot, claims to handle the newer standards if the PC can cope (hence the use of firewire). Costs around €199 so maybe that might be an option.


  • #4
    DermoMIO
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 498 ✭✭DermoMIO


    are these cards to rip tv programs onto ur computer or am i way off the meark ?


  • #5
    watty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,417 ✭✭✭✭watty


    DermoMIO wrote:
    are these cards to rip tv programs onto ur computer or am i way off the meark ?
    Personal Video Recording. An alternative to Sky+ for free TV and better quality than analog input HardDrive or DVD video recorders. Generally does not work well with a Sky viewing card, though other Pay TV systems legtimate viewing cards can work perfectly on PC. Withe Sky "platform" basically you are limited to the channels that work without a viewing card, all BBC, all ITV and about 30 other decent channels.


    It is not "ripping". No circumvention of encryption or rights management. Of course some people will try to steal Pay TV. but we can't talk about that here, we don't condone it (the broadcasters countermeasures make life harder fo legitimate viewers), and it is illegal everywhere in EU.

    Unless you can feed a real TV with the recorded signal, on screen PC / laptop viewing can be poorer as the displays are progressive (TV is interlaced) and the wrong refresh frequency.

    While higher refresh and progressive is better quality, conversion of refresh/frame rate and from interlaced to progressive (and even the resolution) diminishes the quality significantly compared with a screen with the correct NATIVE interlace, frame rate and resolution.


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