[mythtv-users] Any PCI Express DVB-T Dual Tuner Cards out there and working yet?

[Simon Hobson]

Another Sillyname wrote:

>  > If they try to move DVB-T to T2 in the UK anytime soon there will be an
>>  almighty stink, seeing as how they are still trying to get people to move to
>  > DVB-T in the first place, and that isn't due to be completed until 2012.


>Your assuming that they'll turn off DVB-T, they won't, instead certain
>Mux's for HD will be DVB-T2.  So no stink or indeed issues, it just
>means if you want HD you'll need a new box, your current box will
>continue to to receive the existing channel set.

I'm waiting for the brown stuff to hit the fan when thousands of 
people find that their expensive "HD Ready with integrated Freeview" 
TV's won't show HD when it comes along. Just over 5 weeks now, then 
the fun starts ;-)

<rant mode>Locally (I'm in the Granada region due for switchover next 
month) one of the local engineering institutions had someone speak 
about the switchover (I think they might have been from DigitalUK). I 
raised the question of all this "HD Ready" kit that won't do HD, and 
the person doing the presentation simply didn't see an issue, and 
besides "we're only responsible for getting people on a basic 
service". To say I thought that was a short sighted attitude would be 
an understatement ! It has to be said that I am not at all surprised 
- the whole process has been a complete disorganised mess. If they'd 
actually thought ahead and planned for this then they'd have mandated 
integrated receivers several years ago and the majority of people 
would have got them by now by natural replacement - but no, they 
allowed analogue only sets to be sold right up to 12 months before 
switchover.</rant mode>

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