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Freeview HD TV card?

Jed Shields

Jed Shields

Jed Shields

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Hi guys,

I'm toying with the idea of adding a TV Card to my WHS so that I can watch recordings throughout the house (HTPC downstairs, HDMI extender from WHS to TV in bedroom etc). Originally looking at a two tuner version, but I'm having trouble locating one that can record Freeview HD. Any suggestions?

Cheers,

Jed.
 
Freeview HD PC cards are not expected till later in year. There was a shortage of chips (as UK is unique with DVB-T2 standard) and they have all been used for STBs to sell retail in time for the world cup.
 
Ahh right. Not interested in Freesat so I'll wait for the DVB-T2 cards. I might get a cheap DVB-T1 card to keep me going though ... any suggestions?
 
freeview uk currently uses DVB-T standard
Its such a pity they decided to create a new standard from scratch instead of just repackaging the data :(

No there are not any freeview DVB-T2 card available yet
 
Jed Shields said:
Ahh right. Not interested in Freesat so I'll wait for the DVB-T2 cards. I might get a cheap DVB-T1 card to keep me going though ... any suggestions?
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I like the Hauppauge ones :).

daz said:
Nothing in the UK is broadcast on DVB-T1 is it?
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Freeview is and has always been known as DVB-T, but some people are now calling it DVB-T1 just to make the difference between it and DVB-T2 even clearer.
 
Are LNB's standardised, or are there different types for different signals? I know freesat uses the same satellite as sky, so I'm guessing another of the same will do the trick.
 
Bergkamp said:
Are LNB's standardised, or are there different types for different signals? I know freesat uses the same satellite as sky, so I'm guessing another of the same will do the trick.
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All the same, just got to point to a different satellite depending on what you want to get!
 
Bergkamp said:
Sorry for the hi-jack but I'm wondering what is required to run a dvb-s2 card and a sky box on another tv from one satellite dish.
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You'd need two more feeds from the LNB (one for the DVB-S2 card and one from the Sky Box). Remember that a Sky box takes one feed, and a Sky+ box takes two (that's how the watch one channel whilst recording another works). The key thing ro remember with Satellite compared with a regular TV aerial is that you cannot simply split/cascade the cables, each tuner needs it's own feed from the LNB.

Depending on what LNB you've got fitted you might just need to do the cable runs from it, or you might need to replace the LNB with one that has more ports and do the cable runs.


I've got a Octo-LNB with five connections going to the lounge and one going to the dining room, so to hook my PC up all I would need to do is run another cable from one of the two free ports on the LNB to my bedroom.
 
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Incidentally, unless I'm much mistaken, you can't put a card in a WHS box and then access it from other machines, if that's what you were planning on doing.
 
They are bringing in HD I meant it as a stop gap instead of getting an SD tv card to tide over.
 
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