[mythtv-users] MythTV in the UK

[Andrew Herron]

On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 5:29 PM, Stephen Bridges <widget at stdin.co.uk> wrote:

> On Thursday 18 March 2010 09:18:13 Simon Faulkner wrote:
> > Is anyone doing MythTV in the UK?
> >
> > I am wondering which card is best for DVB-S?
>
> I bought a Hauppauge bog standard DVB-S card (no S2) from ebuyer.  It
> arrived
> and worked.  DVB-S is pretty disappointing compared to DVB-T though.
>  There's
> no BBC red button stuff on freesat, as there's not enough bandwidth as it's
> full of crap shopping channels.  Signal to noise is a lot lower in terms of
> content.  Unfortunately I don't have Freeview reception in Northampton, but
> my
> Nova T cards are in a bag ready for the switchover, presumably just in time
> for T2 to obsolete them.
>
> Widget.
>
>

The Red Button is working fine on DVB-S (Freesat) for us here...whats
bandwidth got to do with it anyway? We have excellent SD and HD reception
here...London area. Sounds like the problems you describe are local to your
setup/installation.

All the best


Andrew
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