Hi all,
I have been trying to get my head around this for some time as to what to do to get our *** cable feed to a PC or distributed to several PC's. We live in an ex-C****-t** area and at the moment simply have our basic package (on a PACE DI4001NC) distributed to other TV's in the house through a variety of RF cable and wireless video senders. I thought there must be a way to get the individual channels decoded on a PC.
I have looked a various TV cards for the PC, notably the Technotrend Premium cards. These, I have been informed, can be used in conjunction with a soft CAM and various other bits of software that will allow me to record and stream channels to other PC's, effectively creating a media centre. However, the cards in question seem to be no longer in production and those that come up are are around £150, which I am prepared to pay if this does what I want. I have heard that Hauppauge make a DVB-C card, but again I can't find any info on this. I don't think this has hard CAM support so I don't know even if it will support soft CAM's, in which case I will be able to view are the unscrambled very basic channels.
However, after looking at this board maybe I can achieve what I want another way. There doesn't seem to be a lot of box mods for my STB but I am reading about the DBox 2 that can be installed with Linux and appear to offer media centre capabilities. Can it be controlled form a PC? What are the drawbacks? I can assume that there would be no interactive elements (so bang goes the extra BBC channels during the World Snooker) and such, but is there any other downsides?
Is the DBOX the way to go or would it be better to go with a TV card? Are there any other options I should look at?
Many thanks for any insight you can share with this noob.
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