[mythtvnz] dvb-s usb

[Jason Taylor]

I have a a couple of dvb-s pci cards already and a usb dvb-t that I was
using, just moved house and the roof only has a sky dish so I was thinking
a cheap dvb-s usb would be the easier option, really only getting setup for
the Olympics, It may just work out better to pay for a month of fanpass
anyway

On 24 April 2016 at 18:44, Stephen Worthington <stephen_agent at jsw.gen.nz>
wrote:

> On Sun, 24 Apr 2016 17:31:25 +1200, you wrote:
>
> >On 23/04/16 20:33, Jason Taylor wrote:
> >> Anybody know where to find a dvb-s usb tuner?
> >
> >I think I have 2 external usb dvb-s tuners i'm not using right now which I
> >found on trade second hand a while ago.
> >
> >These units have linux support and the only issue I know about them is
> that
> >they can get quite warm and they are passively cooled.  Locating then
> >somewhere with some air flow is important or they will cause problems on
> >hit summer days.
> >
> >One of them was missing a power supply but if I give it to you i'm sure a
> >power supply wouldn't be hard to source.
> >
> >I also have a Hauppauge pci express card that does dvb-t/s/s2/c  and has
> >linux support.  These cards are I think more reliable than usb ones.  Only
> >downside with this card is I think it may be single tuner so even though
> >dvb-t shows as separate to dvb-s only one will work at a time I think.
> >Haven't tested this yet though.
> >
> >For recording freeview sat signal you only need a dvb-s tuner but dvb-s2
> >ones should be backwards compatible.  If you somehow manged to record sky
> >then a dvb-s tuner is all you need for all channels bar the few duplicated
> >hd channels but at some point soon they will be migrating to all dvb-s2.
> I
> >can't see freeview changing any time soon though.
>
> You probably want a DVB-S2 tuner now for Prime, which is available in
> HD from Sky.  I am not sure if it is unencrypted like the other
> channels Sky shares with Freeview.  I intend to find out when I have
> some spare time to tune it in and find out.
>
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