[mythtvnz] satellite or terrestrial options

[Nick Rout]

On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 10:38 AM, Roger Searle <roger.searle at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi - I am moving house soon, my mythtv backend has a Hauppage DVB-T card for
> the terrestrial aerial and works well.  The new house has a sky satellite
> dish and no terrestrial aerial.
>
> I'm interested in list recommendations or experience or pros/cons on whether
> to stay with DVB-T and install an aerial, or to go with satellite and get a
> DVB-S card.  There is good line of sight for either.  I know of rain fade,
> is this actually much of an issue in dry Canterbury?  Are there more HD
> channels via one or the other?

I have had both. Limiting the discussion to Freeview, DVB-S has no HD,
DVB-T has some (TV1, 2, 3)

I would stick with terrestrial for the HD.

There are some small differences in lineup, which you can see on the
freeviewnz.tv site. None of what is missing on T is wanted by me, so
my sat cards aren't even in my backend any more.



>
> Which DVB-S cards are well regarded and easily obtained in NZ?  Are there
> some that are USB so I can keep the DVB-T card or is there no advantage to
> this given we are accessing the freeview channels only (no sky subscription
> and no intention of getting).  The motherboard/cpu/RAM is new-ish/lots of
> cores/large amount of.
>
> Apologies in advance if my searching of the list was lame and I failed to
> find numerous threads on this very topic.  Otherwise thanks for any feedback
> :)
>
> Cheers,
> Roger
>
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