[mythtvnz] HVR-1200 and EPG...

[Nick Rout]

On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 3:31 PM, Steve Hodge <stevehodge at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 3:11 PM, Robert Connolly <rob at webworxshop.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> I would much prefer to be able to pick up the DVB broadcast rather than
>> analogue, however the Freeview site seems to think this is 'Unlikely'.
>> Has anyone had any experience of picking this up in outlying areas? (For
>> the record I'm located in Murawai, west of Auckland).
>
> If you have Sky Digital then Freeview (the satellite version, not HD) will
> certainly work. You'd need a splitter box and a DVB-S card.

There are a couple that you can find from a linux friendly distributor
(and author of the http://nice.net.nz/tv_grab_nz-py/ script) here:

http://nicegear.co.nz/dvb-cards/

In relation to the tevii card, I think I saw something oin here
recently about the remote not working with mythtv.