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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Hi
All,</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>I
am pretty new to all of this so bare with me. </span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>I
am looking for a way to set up my home PC network so that PC can view digital cable
channels directly and channels can be recorded and played back later. So far I
can see two ways of doing this – using a standard PCI card in a PC (such
as the TechnoTrend Premium DVB-C 2.1 (C2100) or the newer C2300), or with the
use of a DBox 2 (or possible a DreamBox?). Unbelievably, getting hold of a DBox
seem to be the cheaper option and from what I can gather it would be possible
to stream and capture a digital channel from the DBox and control it from a PC
on the network. Obviously, only one channel per tuner (either PCI card or DBox)
can be view/recorded at any one time.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Is
this the kind of thing MythTV will enable me to do? Will this enable a
multicast setup – i.e. can many PC’s view a stream at once or is
this a one at a time operation? So far, I am a Windows user and although I
dabbled with Linux many years ago, there was no real incentive for me to stick
with it. Is there a way Windows PC could be used? Obviously, the DBox would also
allow direct viewing on to a TV screen via SCART as well networked operation,
but are there any disadvantages to using a DBox over a PCI card in a PC? What
about the use of a cable DreamBox – I know they are more expensive but
they also have a 100Mbit network port rather than the 10Mbit port of the DBox.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>As
said, I very new to all of this and I am trying to read as much info as I can
on the DBox’s but the majority of it is in German (which I don’t speak
or read) and even translation tools aren’t that wonderful for a lot of
the technical babble, so I glad at least MythTV is in English!</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>I
hope some of the question can be answered, many thanks.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Verdana><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;color:navy'>Thanks,</span></font></p>
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10.0pt;color:navy'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Verdana><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;color:navy'>Chris</span></font></p>
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