On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 06:27:35PM +0200, shlomo solomon wrote:
> On Thursday 16 January 2003 09:33, Christoph Bugel wrote:
> > I bought a Pinnacle TV card (at Kosmos, 360 NIS, but out of stock now)
>
> Since this is the only response I got (and it apparently refers to an out of
> stock item), I'll re-phrase my question.
>
> Can anyone recommend a bt8** TV card that is known to work with Isreaeli
> cable TV. I've looked at the hardware compatibilty list and bttv and xawtv
> documents, but because of the different ways TV is broadcast in various parts
> of the world, I don't think being on that list necessarily means the card
> will work here. I want to be sure I'm buying something that will work in
> Israel.
I am almost sure that if the card will be supported by the kernel driver
well, it will work anywhere. There are differences between countries in
the names and frequencies of the various channels, but this is a matter
of software (xawtv).
I personally have too a Pinnacle PCTV, which worked very well. I also
sent to the list (about two years ago) my .xawtv . In the recent weeks
I looked at it again, hoping to make a cleaner configuration, and decided
that the Israeli cables companies to not conform to any of the builtin
xawtv configurations, and they want pointers to official sources from
contributors. Since I could not find such info in the cable companies
web sites, I forgot about it. The only "official" source I have is a
paper booklet from Aruzei Zahav from many years ago (probably before
they had a web site), and I can send it (or put in my web site) if there
is a need.
One more thing - about quality: I could barely see anything with the
card as-is. I bought a cable-signal-amplifier (around 100 NIS at home-
center), and with it most channels are fine. A notable exception is
channel 3, which is also of lower quality in a real TV. I think this is
all irrelevant if you intend to use an external convertor (or even
better, a digital one - I haven't tried).
Didi
>
> TIA
>
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