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maybe some of you heared about the new DVB technique (available on new tv cards generation too)? i want to buy a inexpensive but good DVB tv-card for my pc! But there are some questions i dont really know...

- What means DVB-S and DVB-T (where is the different, whats the best?)

I still want a tv-card with remote maintenance and suporting following things (if possible):

- full DVB movie and radio support
- electronic program guide (EPG)
- time shifting (Record & Playback Live TV)
- stereo !!!
- mpeg decoder (maybe divx decoder too, if available and make sense?)
- picture in picture (would be nice, but not a must)

I taked a look at ebay and some computer online shops! Seems there are is a big palette of DVB TVcards with a very different price scale! If you know something about those cards and what card would be great for inexpensive money, please share your opinions...

what do you think about this two cards (available at ebay):

ebay id: 5165226171 (standard connections?)
ebay id: 5167643326 (dont know the connectios!)

thanks for comments...

I trust on Hauppauge TV Cards. They are realy good but coasts a bit of money.

DVB Radio is not supported in any region of germany yet but I suggest it will come in some years. I dont know any card that supports digital radio for now.

The Hauppauge WinTV Nova-T PCI for example seems to be a good card. It has a build in mpeg2 encoder for faster encoding with less CPU usage but doesn't habe the possibility to record an AC3 stream.

All the other features you are require like time-shift and all so on, depends only on the software you use. Normaly Hauppauge includes a WinTV application that supports all these features as standard. And if you need a good looking application you might take a look on Windows MCE.

An mpeg decoder does not make realy sense couse a standard GFX card has a build in decoder. (Nvidia and ATI for example has build in decoders). DivX could be decoded with an ati-gpu as well.

Hope that helps a bit.

Mike

Oh I forgott to explain:

DVB-T stands for terrestical receiver
DVB-S for satelite
DVB-C for cable
DVB-M (forthcoming) stands for Mobile receiver like handhelds and hanys.

Mike

Tranquil wrote:Oh I forgott to explain:

DVB-T stands for terrestical receiver
DVB-S for satelite
DVB-C for cable
DVB-M (forthcoming) stands for Mobile receiver like handhelds and hanys.

Mike

mike, thanks for all the great infos! take a look to one of the ebay ids i posted... one of that card supports DVB radio afaik! what DVB stuff need i here for german? DVB-T or DBV-C ?

Okay, it depends on what receivertype you will base your system. Cable or antenna?

http://cgi.ebay.de/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie ... 5167643326 is for SAT ONLY! NO USE FOR CABLE OR NORMAL ANTENNA.
The other one is for standard terrestical usage eg a room antenna but does not support AC3. (What I would prefere)

I dont know if there are other countrys then germany that supports DVB yet. dont know. Possible any other one can tell something to that?