Digital Satellite q's

[#66]

Right now I'm running a 150 card off a dish/sat decoder (CanalDigital, Norway) with a blaster. Got working pretty well exept that the channel change is a bit slow and only one channel to watch/record at a time.

Now I'm looking at satalite cards so I have some questions.

What is the difference between a Nova S and Nexus S cards ?

If I want to record and watch other channels at the same time I will have to add another card right?

Each card with have to get a signal from a seperate head on the dish?

I will have to use a CAM card reader to unlock my subscribed channels. Will muliple sat cards work off one card reader?

Anyone from Norway/Sweden/Denmark with such a set up ?? Let me know!

CC

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What is the difference between a Nova S and Nexus S cards ?

The nexus has no BDA drivers so its not compatible with GB-PVR. Hauppauge also have newer Nova-S Plus and Nova-SE2 devices.

I will have to use a CAM card reader to unlock my subscribed channels.

Sorry, but there is no CAM support in GB-PVR.

[blader_se]

If I want to record and watch other channels at the same time I will have to add another card right?

To be able to record more than one channel at the time, I've been looking at the dreambox which also supports cardsharing. You can at least use it in a similar setup as you have today. But perhaps it's also possible to record mpg streams with a GB-PVR plugin.

(Dreambox is basically a digital T/S/C reciever with an aditional RJ-45 in the back)

[stefan]

The dreambox is expensive =)

[blader_se]

The dreambox is expensive =)

Perhaps, yes (starting at 1600 SEK) but I cant help thinking that you get value for your money. Especially since you don't have to pay the extra 100 SEK a month for a second card. My problem is that I don't know wether to go -S or -T...

[#66]

The nexus has no BDA drivers so its not compatible with GB-PVR. Hauppauge also have newer Nova-S Plus and Nova-SE2 devices.

OK

Sorry, but there is no CAM support in GB-PVR.

The card is to let me see the cannels I have subscribed to, surely this has nothing to do with GB? I was thinking of a Nova S .....arrrrg the card reader is for the nexus!

OK how do I do this?

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The card is to let me see the cannels I have subscribed to, surely this has nothing to do with GB?

Unfortunately its not that simple. There is lots things GB-PVR would need to do to enable decryption of these pay channels.

[stefan]

Perhaps, yes (starting at 1600 SEK) but I cant help thinking that you get value for your money. Especially since you don't have to pay the extra 100 SEK a month for a second card. My problem is that I don't know wether to go -S or -T...

-T: you get both TV3 and Kanal5.
-S: either TV3 or Kanal5. Better quality picture sound, though. I'd go with -T.

[blader_se]

-T: you get both TV3 and Kanal5.
-S: either TV3 or Kanal5. Better quality picture sound, though. I'd go with -T.

-T con: currently no reception availble :mad: (hoping for slave transmitter to start when they shut down the analouge tramsissions) and they will switch to MPEG-4 when going to HDTV