Adam792
Specialist Contributor
- Joined
- Sep 5, 2009
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- Age
- 31
- My Satellite Setup
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Dishes: 80cm (5°W), 80cm (30°W), 60cm Zone 2 (13°E/19.2°E/28.2°E)
Receivers: HTPC w/ TBS6905 4x DVB-S2 PCIe tuner card running TVHeadend, Octagon SF8008 mini.
- My Location
- Cheltenham
The one thing that I'd like to be widely available is DVB-S/S2 to DVB-T/C/T2 remodulators.
Units that do it do exist but are usually modular, extremely expensive and aimed at large hotels and blocks of flats.
I've just been to Mallorca and in the hotel I stayed in the TDT TVs had normal Spanish DVB-T as well as BBC One, BBC Two, ITV, ITV2, ITV4, Das Erste, ZDF, KiKa and 3Sat all supplied over DVB-T in this way - it must have cost them a fair bit to set this up!
There must be a way to use a computer to do most of this. You can easily filter PIDs from a bog standard DVB-S/S2 tuner card and with some work you could make something that modifies and creates multiplex data. The fun part is devising how to modulate the DVB-T signal with a suitable external device that can have the data passed to it and create a DVB-T signal.
I'm sure it could be done a lot more cheaply than the £1000s a professional system costs and could be really useful for household distribution!
Units that do it do exist but are usually modular, extremely expensive and aimed at large hotels and blocks of flats.
I've just been to Mallorca and in the hotel I stayed in the TDT TVs had normal Spanish DVB-T as well as BBC One, BBC Two, ITV, ITV2, ITV4, Das Erste, ZDF, KiKa and 3Sat all supplied over DVB-T in this way - it must have cost them a fair bit to set this up!
There must be a way to use a computer to do most of this. You can easily filter PIDs from a bog standard DVB-S/S2 tuner card and with some work you could make something that modifies and creates multiplex data. The fun part is devising how to modulate the DVB-T signal with a suitable external device that can have the data passed to it and create a DVB-T signal.
I'm sure it could be done a lot more cheaply than the £1000s a professional system costs and could be really useful for household distribution!