2005-10-07, 04:54 AM
Hi,
I live in Denmark in a small town withouth any possibility for Cable TV (ever?)
I have a nice little MediaCenter based on a custom cabinet and an 2,8GHz P4 with a gig of RAM. All running very smoothly.
On my labtop (for travelling) I enjoy using a Pinnacle PC-TV USB2 unit, nice, handy and relatively stable (value/money). I bought this a year ago, today I think I would have bought something else though as the software is way to closed!
Now for my question:
All my channels at home are received through my Sat receiver as all terristic channels now are available as Digital broadcasts and the rest is provided by the satellite!
This means that I just turn on my TV and have to do all and any channel selections on the Sat-box - there is absolutely NO way i can see around this as a build in Sat-receiver seem unable to read decoding information from the Conax card provided by my distributor of Sat channels.
Now I am wondering:
Why even buy an analogue PCI card for my "Mediacenter" as all I really need is a Hardware based MPEG2 SVHS IN card for recording the signal from the Sat-box.....
Does anyone have any ideas for an ideal solution together with GBPVR?
I find the feature of being able to broadcast the signal using my LAN and a player on my Labtop (in my office) at home irresistible and would love a good solution for this.
Any advice / hints are very welcome before I rush out and invest a lot of money in some hardware I really do not need (Hauppage PVR-150) - or do I _really_ need to own one of these?
Thanx in advance.
/Niels
I live in Denmark in a small town withouth any possibility for Cable TV (ever?)
I have a nice little MediaCenter based on a custom cabinet and an 2,8GHz P4 with a gig of RAM. All running very smoothly.
On my labtop (for travelling) I enjoy using a Pinnacle PC-TV USB2 unit, nice, handy and relatively stable (value/money). I bought this a year ago, today I think I would have bought something else though as the software is way to closed!
Now for my question:
All my channels at home are received through my Sat receiver as all terristic channels now are available as Digital broadcasts and the rest is provided by the satellite!
This means that I just turn on my TV and have to do all and any channel selections on the Sat-box - there is absolutely NO way i can see around this as a build in Sat-receiver seem unable to read decoding information from the Conax card provided by my distributor of Sat channels.
Now I am wondering:
Why even buy an analogue PCI card for my "Mediacenter" as all I really need is a Hardware based MPEG2 SVHS IN card for recording the signal from the Sat-box.....
Does anyone have any ideas for an ideal solution together with GBPVR?
I find the feature of being able to broadcast the signal using my LAN and a player on my Labtop (in my office) at home irresistible and would love a good solution for this.
Any advice / hints are very welcome before I rush out and invest a lot of money in some hardware I really do not need (Hauppage PVR-150) - or do I _really_ need to own one of these?
Thanx in advance.
/Niels