<b><i>Nick Morrott <knowledgejunkie@gmail.com></i></b> wrote:<blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><dan.gravell@talk21.com>If I was not going to take up a contract with Sky (only wanting access<br>to FreeSat) I would opt for DVB-T with at least a couple of DVB-T<br>cards. On close inspection, you may find the recording quality<br>slightly higher on DVB-T than DVB-S (especially the high bitrate<br>channels like BBC1), and you can also take better advantage of the new<br>multirec features in the new 0.21 release of MythTV. With 6 DVB-T<br>cards, you can potentially record everything that's being broadcast on<br>Freeview at the same time*<br><br>The channels Nick F mentions as requiring a Sky card _should_ be<br>available as Free To View later this year, once Channel 4's current<br>carriage agreements finish. I have been testing a DVB-S card on my<br>MythTV network (we moved to a property with an
existing dish, so I<br>thought I'd use it) and it makes a useful addition to my 3 DVB-T and 2<br>VirginMedia sources. There are a lot of FTV channels available on<br>DVB-S that are not available on Freeview or VirginMedia, but these are<br>nice additions, not prerequisites for using the service. Having had a<br>good experience with Freeview and MythTV, I don't think I would opt<br>for DVB-S in preference to DVB-T if I was starting out from scratch.<br><br>DVB-T cards are generally cheaper and more numerous than DVB-S cards,<br>but both types are well supported in current kernels. If you want to<br>use >1 DVB-S card, you'll need to get an LNB with sufficient outputs.<br>If you want to use >1 DVB-T card, you just need a splitter or multiway<br>booster. I'd take a guess that overall, a DVB-T solution would work<br>out cheaper. The best sources of information on suitable DVB cards are<br>on the LinuxTV wikis at linuxtv.org, and the MythTV wiki.<br><br>* although it's
unlikely that consumer hardware would allow this, due<br>to the storage demands of recording 30+ simultaneous streams. Note<br>that multirec also support DVB-S cards - it's just that there are less<br>channels per transponder on the satellite, so multirec is less<br>beneficial than on DVB-T.<br><br>-- <br>Nick Morrott<br></dan.gravell@talk21.com></blockquote>Thanks everyone. Looks like it's DVB-T for me...<br><p> 
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