Re: digital TV cards

2008-12-28 Thread Erez D
On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 11:15 PM, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: > On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 10:44:44PM +0200, Erez D wrote: > >> The ideal case for you is to use a dvb-s/dvb-s2 card, a card reader and a >> YES smart card. >> you will not need an STB (memir) for this, and you get the digital signal >>

Re: digital TV cards

2008-12-27 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 07:13:15AM +0200, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 11:23:06PM +0200, Shlomo Solomon wrote: Are you saying that I'm wrong in assuming that my existing analogue cards won't work with YES? YES. Well, actually probably. It depends upon the outputs the d

Re: digital TV cards

2008-12-27 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 11:23:06PM +0200, Shlomo Solomon wrote: Are you saying that I'm wrong in assuming that my existing analogue cards won't work with YES? YES. Well, actually probably. It depends upon the outputs the decoder box has the inputs the card has. Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mend

Re: digital TV cards

2008-12-27 Thread Shlomo Solomon
now plug them into the HOT antenna plug and they work > > out-of-the-box. But that's obviously not going to be the case with YES > > digital signals. > > > > So to summarize, I'm looking for CHEAP, Linux friendy, YES friendly > > digital TV cards that c

Re: digital TV cards

2008-12-27 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 10:44:44PM +0200, Erez D wrote: The ideal case for you is to use a dvb-s/dvb-s2 card, a card reader and a YES smart card. you will not need an STB (memir) for this, and you get the digital signal with no quality loss. you will also probably be able to watch/record multiple

Re: digital TV cards

2008-12-27 Thread Erez D
The ideal case for you is to use a dvb-s/dvb-s2 card, a card reader and a YES smart card. you will not need an STB (memir) for this, and you get the digital signal with no quality loss. you will also probably be able to watch/record multiple programs with one dvb-s card if they share frequencies (b

Re: digital TV cards

2008-12-27 Thread Dvir Volk
e fed from > the "MEMIR". Since my existing TV cards are analogue only (and include a > tuner), I now plug them into the HOT antenna plug and they work > out-of-the-box. But that's obviously not going to be the case with YES > digital signals. > > So to summarize,

Re: digital TV cards

2008-12-27 Thread Shlomo Solomon
analogue only (and include a tuner), I now plug them into the HOT antenna plug and they work out-of-the-box. But that's obviously not going to be the case with YES digital signals. So to summarize, I'm looking for CHEAP, Linux friendy, YES friendly digital TV cards that can connect to

Re: digital TV cards

2008-12-27 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 03:50:28PM +0200, Shlomo Solomon wrote: I'm planning to move from HOT to YES which means I'll have to replace 3 analogue TV cards with digital cards. Does anyone on the list have good experience with a CHEAP digital TV card that works properly in Linux and YES? My existi

Re: digital TV cards

2008-12-27 Thread Dvir Volk
does receiving digital broadcast actually work with Yes? I was under the impression that it's all encrypted. how do you get past that? On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 11:20 AM, Ohad Levy wrote: > > if you are talking about SDTV, I would recommend the PVR series (MPEG2 in > Hardware), and if you are plan

Re: digital TV cards

2008-12-27 Thread Ohad Levy
if you are talking about SDTV, I would recommend the PVR series (MPEG2 in Hardware), and if you are planning to have 3, you could consider the PVR-500 which has 2 analogue inputs in one pci card. Ohad On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 9:50 PM, Shlomo Solomon wrote: > I'm planning to move from HOT to YES w

digital TV cards

2008-12-26 Thread Shlomo Solomon
I'm planning to move from HOT to YES which means I'll have to replace 3 analogue TV cards with digital cards. Does anyone on the list have good experience with a CHEAP digital TV card that works properly in Linux and YES? My existing cards are no-name saa 7130 (if I remember correctly) and work