[mythtvnz] satellite or terrestrial options

[Roger Searle]

Thanks for the replies yesterday.  I will get a terrestrial aerial and 
stick with my DVB-T card.

Regards
Roger


On 07/10/2014 1:13 p.m., Nick Rout wrote:
> 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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