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Posted by Gary Tait on 09/07/05 13:21
"Richard Sloan" <rsloan2003@hotmail.com> wrote in
news:B5tTe.12782$I02.654533@news20.bellglobal.com:
> We have a IP STB for terrestrial use and want to add a satellite
> receiver to it.
>
> We want to send IP over a satellite link, down to a STB that has a
> Windows Media decoder in it.... firstly can you do this over a one way
> system, that is to say you download information basically off an IP
> network but you have no path for the system to communicate back over,
> I would say no as TCP/IP needs to know the packets got there, and in
> this system we would be only one direction.
>
> Also is there another way to get data to the set top box? other the
> the DVB route? We have a lot at our disposal here but do not know what
> to use.
>
> Thanks!
>
>
In theory (I don't know too much about IP video), you could have a
server PC with a DVB-S PCI tuner, which serves the received IP packets
to the STBs.
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