[mythtv] [mythtv-commits] Ticket #1056: Dishnet EIT Patch\

[Steve Adeff]

On Tuesday 17 January 2006 19:37, Greg Estabrooks wrote:
> > how do you get this information from the Dish receiver to the PC?
>
>  EIT information comes from a DVB card, not from a receiver. In
> my uncles case he is using a spare dvb card I had laying around to get the
> listings data and it's being recorded from his receiver with a pvr250.
> He has no net connection that could be used to get listings from zap2it,
> so this gets him his listings.
>

ah, wasn't aware you could connect to Dish's satelites with a DVB card. Could 
you get a card reader for the computer and use the DVB card to tune the Dish 
channels you subscribe to?

-- 
Steve