Any such thing as a digital modulator?

grey squirrel

You know the way it's possible to use a scart to RF modulator and the output then shows up with the RTE, etc in other rooms

I'd like to get a new TV and watch the Irish stations on digital and receive output from a Humax HD PVR with the digital tuner too.

It's hard on older person with all this switching. I know I can get kit and watch the dtt channels, then sqitch to analogue tuner for the Humax.

I want to go 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 on th e digital tuner for RTE1, RTE2, TV3, TG4, Humax respectively

emaherx

I don't think there are any consumer based products for Europeen Standards of DVB-T.
I belive there is a device available to the US market.

google for DVB-T Encoder and/or Modulator further info.
Most if not all DVB-T Modulators out there seem to be for Industry use and cost 1000's of Euro.
there are also PC based solutions including a few DIY devices (probubly not for the elderly or anyone with a life!).

This could actualy be a very nice device if one was developed. It could make an easy way to distribute HD devices around the house using standard Coax cables

watty

You can handle easily 12 channels on a DVB-t modulator at very high quality in MPEG4. About 1600 Euro for a PCI card with ASI in.

Then you need to generate the ASI signal with the MPEG2-TS on it (basically a serial data stream of fixed speed, no matter what the Modulator Data rate is).

http://www.dektec.com/

I've used the Dektec products and they are cheaper lab type stuff rather than professional headend gear.

US products must be avoided. They use a completely incompatible different system 8VSB/ASTI.

We use OFDM. This is aside from what is in the MPEG2-TS, which can be any mix of MPEG2, MPEG4, MP2, MP3, Dolby5.1, AAC, Teletexts, EPG, Data downloads etc.

emaherx

watty wrote: »

You can handle easily 12 channels on a DVB-t modulator at very high quality in MPEG4. About 1600 Euro for a PCI card with ASI in.

Then you need to generate the ASI signal with the MPEG2-TS on it (basically a serial data stream of fixed speed, no matter what the Modulator Data rate is).

http://www.dektec.com/

I've used the Dektec products and they are cheaper lab type stuff rather than professional headend gear.

US products must be avoided. They use a completely incompatible different system 8VSB/ASTI.

We use OFDM. This is aside from what is in the MPEG2-TS, which can be any mix of MPEG2, MPEG4, MP2, MP3, Dolby5.1, AAC, Teletexts, EPG, Data downloads etc.

Some interesting stuff there, as per usual Watty.
I presume these are for bench testing and demo purposes.But at 1600 euro still quite pricy

But not excatly consumer grade plug and play kit. I think a stand alone device which creates a personal mux(with programmable channel number) with maybe 4 inputs to distribute HDMI/Scart devices around the house on standard coax is what the OP is looking for. (I know this slightly exceeds OP's spec, but If I was to develop such a product this would be its minimum spec)

It may not exist at the moment but there could be a market for such a device. (Provided it could be produced for a sensible price).