[mythtv-users] Re: DVB-S Users: Anyone have C-band?

[Mike Frisch]

On 6-Nov-05, at 11:19 PM, Greg Grotsky wrote:

> As I understand, a lot of the programming that you would want for  
> free, is encrypted.  I found that site too and was excited about  
> the possibility but seems like nothings free anymore.  I think of  
> DVB as just a digital transmission over an analog signal, not sure  
> if that is correct.  Anyone care to pinpoint the defnition?

A satellite does nothing more than re-transmit the signal that it's  
sent (or "uplinked", which is the proper term).  It can't tell if  
it's digital or analog, it just amplifies it and re-transmits.  The  
way the signal is "encoded" is specified by the DVB standard.

Does this help?