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I have no TV, it blew up 2 years ago, and has been succeeded by my PC and 22" Widescreen.
However, the situation is.....My sky digibox is feeding into the machine via a standard analogue TV card, and while it's entirely acceptable, it's not what your call high quality.
I have a Freecom USB freeview stick which is a fine piece of hardware, but suffers two problems....firstly there is almost no freeview signal here as we are in shadow of the main transmitter and 8 miles accross open water from the only one we can receive, boosters are pointless without a full size aerial and even then it's dodgy. And secondly, Linux has no idea what it is.
What I need is a better option, an internal card if possible, one that uses a standard, well supported chipset (therefor one that Linux will see instantly), and have a better signal quality.
I assume there is no TV card with a conditional access module that accepts sky cards, so what about this freesat business, would it be worth looking at, using the existing sky dish?
I don't even watch the premium sky channels, apart from the odd foray to Discovery, TV is just the thing that makes Dr Who and Racing Cars come on my monitor. So as long as I have BBC1-4 and ITV1-4 and maybe motorsTV, I'd be cool. I can always fire up Sky "the old way" if there's anything else I need to see.
Are there cards that can capture component over SCART or anything like that, so save me converting to composite and back, which I'm sure is half the reason for the crappy quality.
I know NADA about TV cards, so all the googling in the world has left me no better off.
However, the situation is.....My sky digibox is feeding into the machine via a standard analogue TV card, and while it's entirely acceptable, it's not what your call high quality.
I have a Freecom USB freeview stick which is a fine piece of hardware, but suffers two problems....firstly there is almost no freeview signal here as we are in shadow of the main transmitter and 8 miles accross open water from the only one we can receive, boosters are pointless without a full size aerial and even then it's dodgy. And secondly, Linux has no idea what it is.
What I need is a better option, an internal card if possible, one that uses a standard, well supported chipset (therefor one that Linux will see instantly), and have a better signal quality.
I assume there is no TV card with a conditional access module that accepts sky cards, so what about this freesat business, would it be worth looking at, using the existing sky dish?
I don't even watch the premium sky channels, apart from the odd foray to Discovery, TV is just the thing that makes Dr Who and Racing Cars come on my monitor. So as long as I have BBC1-4 and ITV1-4 and maybe motorsTV, I'd be cool. I can always fire up Sky "the old way" if there's anything else I need to see.
Are there cards that can capture component over SCART or anything like that, so save me converting to composite and back, which I'm sure is half the reason for the crappy quality.
I know NADA about TV cards, so all the googling in the world has left me no better off.