1020a can support diseqc + HD?

[bogyver]

Be careful! Just because a station is labeled "HD" doesn't bean that it's output is HD.

We fell into this trap back in the UK (I'm a Brit) when the BBC went to 14x9 and C4 went to PAL Plus. They touted "High Definition" TV but actually it wasn't. The 14x9 standard was an interim (which I think they still have today) which would display letterbox on a 4x3 TV and not quite widescreen on a 16x9 set.

Do a google for "Waddington Television experiment" to read all about the smoke and mirrors.

Mark

Well from what I have seen in the last few years of stargate and battlestar where produced in widescreen and I would think it would fallow in hd, so long as scifi isn't stupid there should not be an issue. I know what you mean about fake HD stuff, TBS has said that they where going to be showing friends in hd. Its kinda hard to but a show in HD that wasn't shot that way, unless they are going to rescan all the film, doubt it probably going to stretch it.

[bogyver]

I've been looking I found a DVB-S2 car the Twinhan 1041 which is supposed to support 8psk

Would this card allow me to receive the DN HD? If not which will?

This is one place I have found some info about NA DN HD info, your best bet might be to ask at http://dvbn.happysat.org
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some more info here
http://board.mytheatre.ru/viewtopic.php?...707eaef87f

[flyswatta]

I have a Twinhan 1025 and had it setup to work with DN both sats via the disqec switch. I had to create two different capture sources, each with the different menu items. I played with this about a year ago, but didn't notice any HD channels. 'course, I really wasn't looking at the time. I've been wanting to set it all up again and play with it, but I had an issue with a memory leak due to a, uh, "plugin" and couldn't have my main GBPVR system go down because of this.

For some more information http://www.satelliteguys.us is a good resource. I'd search their forums for the 1020a, I know there is some discussion about getting HD on the 1025.

[drugstore_cowboy]

I have been reading up on the DVB cards available and although the Twinhan 1020a card is quite popular I was thinking of purchasing the DVBWorld DVB-s2 HD 2104 USB receiver (Box & specs can be seen here). I think this is a good option for a number of reasons

1. It is USB so no heat issues in my case.
2. It supports DVB-S and DVB-S2 so I am future proofing
3. Costs $65.00USD direct from the manufacturer (although it does have to be shipped from China so I am not sure what that will cost)
4. I should be able to pull HD or SD depending on the satellite that I point at
5.. It supports QPSK, 8PSK so I should be able to point to B3V, DTV, or DN (Someone please correct me if I am wrong)

Has anyone seen or played with this? I am assume that this will all work with GBPVR since it has BDA drivers? Sub?

Thanks

[sub]

I dont personally know anything about the device, but I should point out it'll only work for DVB-S not DVB-S2 with GB-PVR. The DVB-S2 tuning is not defined in the BDA spec so each manufacturer does it a different way. I have no idea how this manufacturer does it.

[bogyver]

Does any one know what the difference between 8psk and 8psk-turbo is?
The only tuner I know of that does 8psk-turbo is the genpix skywalker 1, which is usb, its made by a guy on the dvbn.happysat.org, the problem is its expensive but It would probably be the easiest thing to get fully supported in gbpvr, I dont think that the guy who built it would have a problem telling sub the details on how to get the all the non bda spec stuff working.
EDIT:
Here is the website for the device
http://www.genpix-electronics.com
unfortunately it 300 dollars hopefully it will drop eventually

[NI2O]

Does any one know what the difference between 8psk and 8psk-turbo is?

I *think* its just a faster data rate and thus able to support more channels per stream.

http://www.broadcom.com/press/release.php?id=473736

Problem is that with faster data comes wider bandwidth and so the "8" bit starts to go a little astray.

Mark