<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 3:35 PM, Dave Marples <<a href="mailto:dmarples@iee.org">dmarples@iee.org</a>> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Folks,<br><br>I'm trying to upgrade my current mythtv DVB-T setup with a DVB-S<br>receiver, especially for HD.<br>
<br>I need to use a USB based receiver for this, and wondered if anyone has<br>any experience and/or could make any recommendations for Freesat reception?<br><br>There are a few windows devices on eBay, such as this one;<br>
<br><a href="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&Item=350031685573&Category=3761&_trksid=p3907.m29" target="_blank">http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&Item=350031685573&Category=3761&_trksid=p3907.m29</a><br>
<br><br>....the price is right, but I can find no info on Linux support, and the<br>supplier doesn't even appear to be able to tell me the USB ID, so it's<br>difficult to look it up....if anyone has any experience with using this<br>
type of device, or can give me pointers to other USB DVB-S receivers,<br>I'd be very grateful.</blockquote>
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<div>I think the Linuxtv guys are the definitive source on supported cards for Linux</div>
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<div><a href="http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/DVB-S_USB_Devices">http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/DVB-S_USB_Devices</a></div>
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<div>Kevin</div></div>