[mythtv-users] Dual DVB-S Receiver Capable of using CI / CAM module

[Steve Hodge]

On 8/28/06, Nick Rout <nick at rout.co.nz> wrote:
> On Sun, 27 Aug 2006 23:10:06 +0100 (BST)
> Steve Hill wrote:
> > An LNB is an active component - it draws power from the tuner and the
> > tuner tells it to select a particular polarisation (vertical/horizontal)
> > and frequency band (high/low).  I have seen splitters that block the
> > selector tones and power from one of the tuners but that means one of the
> > tuners can't select polarisation and band and relies on the other to do
> > it.
>
> All of the stuff you can get in NZ from Optus B1 seems to be vertically
> polarised, so thats not a problem.

Not only are all NZ sat transmissions vertically polarised but the Sky
LNBs are not universal LNBs so we don't have to worry about switching
frequency bands either.

Steve