[mythtvnz] TVNZ announces High Definition plans

[Steven Ellis]

On Mon, October 8, 2007 10:44 am, Simon Green wrote:
> On 08/10/2007, Jason Haar <jhaar-ourshack-com at whanau.org> wrote:
>> However, if I buy (say) a SkyStar PCI card today, then I should be able
>> to use it today to watch WS-SD, and next year it should also be able to
>> watch/record WS-HD channels?
>
> The Skystar PCI card that I have (skystar 2) is a dvb-s only device,
> meaning that it won't be able to pick up dvb-t, and therefore also not
> able to receive the high definition signal.

Also should the satellite service eventually go HD it is likely to require
a DVB-S2 card so again the SkyStar PCI card won't work.

Steve

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