[mythtv-users] UK Sky Card

David myth at dgreaves.com
Mon Mar 22 12:26:37 EST 2004


see message from 2 hours ago...

> For future reference : 
> http://www.gossamer-threads.com/archive/MythTV_C2/Users_F11/
>
> You can get interoperability - but it's not the easiest thing in the 
> world
>
> There isn't a cat in hells chance of getting a satellite card to work 
> with sky - they won't release the specs.
> But...
> You can plug your sky box into a capture card (I use a PVR 350)
> The problem is then :
> * getting listing info (bleb and radio times seem to be OK - I only 
> use bleb at the moment)
> * getting MythTV to change channels on the Sky box - it has to use an 
> IR transmitter - I'm building one at the moment
>  (the workaround for this is to autoplay - but that's not as nice as 
> it could be)
>
> Apart from that it's fine.
>
> David
>
> Rachel Graves wrote:
>
>> Probably been asked a million times before! But since I couldn't find 
>> a list
>> archive im going to ask...
>>
>> UK Sky Digital & Mythth
>>
>> Anyway of getting thek intercompatible? Any Sky digital tv tuners or
>> anything?
>>
>> Thks
>>
>> Rachel
>>
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Andrew Cockburn wrote:

> Hi Guys,
>
> Still thinking about my choice of capture card ...
>
> I am a UK Sky Digital subscriber and was thinking it would be neat if 
> someone made a card that captures the sattelite feed directly and 
> decodes it (I guess it would need a slot for the viewer card). Does 
> such a thing exits ? Or will I have to use my digibox and feed it into 
> a pvr250 or the like ?
>
> Thanks !
>
> Regards,
>
> Andrew Cockburn
>
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