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Posted by gerry on 11/14/06 07:36
Below is a description of the Nebula PCI card. With an outside antenna
it can record free terrestial HD broadcasts on to a computer with
enough CPU speed and hard drive space.
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Nebula Electronics DigiTV PCI is a high-performance, highly integrated
Digital Television entertainment system that allows you to watch and
record free-to-air Digital Terrestrial Television on your desktop or
laptop computer.
The Nebula DigiTV interface is designed to look and feel like a
Set-Top-Box so that all options, menu items and information are
displayed in video overlays scaled to the size of the viewing window.
This means that you can watch Digital TV in full-screen mode at a
distance with a remote control and not have to get up to use the
keyboard or read programme descriptions. It also means that the
on-screen menus are simplicity itself to navigate. There is even an
option to shut-down your PC using the remote!
Digital Television Recording
With the Nebula DigiTV package, you get an Integrated Digital Video
Recorder that lets you record programmes using either a timer, or
simply by clicking the programme in the 7-Day Electronic Programme
Guide (EPG). All video recordings are made to a user-selectable
directory on your hard disk, and are categorised by programme name. The
recordings are made in MPEG2 format so that you can play them back at
the same quality as the original. If you want to record all programmes
on a channel, just hit the 'Record' button and DigiTV will split each
of the recorded programmes into its own file.
Jukka Aho wrote:
> Mikey wrote:
>
> > If you don't need a Sky box to get BBC HD, how are they doing it?
>
> I don't know anything about the subject, but I'll take a stab at it,
> anyway:
>
> BBC's own web site mentions that BBC HD is an experimental free-to-air
> HD service which is available via satellite or cable:
>
> <http://www.bbc.co.uk/digital/tv/tv_hd.shtml>
>
> For receiving and recording BBC HD broadcasts on cable, you buy a DVB-C
> tuner/demodulator card for your computer. For receiving and recording
> BBC HD broadcasts from a satellite, you buy a DVB-S tuner/demodulator
> card (or possibly a DVB-S2 tuner/demodulator card), instead. The data
> you record is MPEG-2 transport stream, or possibly H.264/MPEG-4 AVC. I
> don't think there's any more magic to it, but if there is someone will
> surely correct me.
>
> See
>
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVB>
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVB-S>
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVB-C>
> <http://www.dvb.org/>
> <http://www.google.com/search?q=dvb-c+card>
> <http://www.google.com/search?q=dvb-s+card>
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPEG-2>
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.264>
>
> --
> znark
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