Re: Re: Pinnacle ShowCenter + PVR

["Simon Rafferty" <simonr@xxxxxxx>]

Sky use Videoguard, an encryption system produced by NDS of TelAviv (whom
Murdoch owns a controlling share). They have, to the best of my knowledge,
never produced a commercially available CAM nor are they likely to with
Sky's licencing arangements for the production of digiboxes.
http://www.nds.com/conditional_access/conditional_access.html
is the link to  NDS's Videoguard website. Whilst most other contidional
access sytems have been hacked Videoguard remains secure, guaranteeing Mr
Murdoch his $13Bn pa revenue from his satelite broadcasting network.

Simon

----- Original Message -----
From: Ross McKillop
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2003 9:19 PM
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Re: Pinnacle ShowCenter + PVR


I dont think there is a CAM for Sky Digital... I remember this being
discussed somewhere else (non-HA) related before..

Ross

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Ross McKillop
On 4 Dec 2003, at 19:39, keyvan2r wrote:

> Tony
>
> I would be very interested to know what you think of the ShowCenter,
> because I am toying with the idea of client/server distributed video
> and movies. I was going to go down the route of slient windows
> clients PC's where my plasma screens are (3 locations - all with
> cat5 wired), but this one made me stop and reconsider. I am building
> a 2 Tb server to rip my dvd's onto. But then I thought it would be
> nice to have some kind of PVR in there too so that recorded off-air
> programs could be stored and viewed by clients. I looked at the
> Pinnecle sat card CI, which claims Sky compatibility, but it needs a
> CAM in order to slot a Sky card into the device. I am looking around
> for this, but so far no luck -- if anyone knows what kind of CAM
> would be suitable for sky & how to get one, I would be very
> grateful --
> Then recorded Sky programs could be viewed over the lan.
> The main question would be how it manages the various flavours of
> MPEG video out there. I am hesitant to start ripping 190+ dvd's into
> vob's (dvdshrink or dvd-decryptor) if Showcenter wants to see them
> in a MPEG2 format.
> How are you planning to use Showcenter??
>
> Thanks
>
> Keyvan
> --- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, Tony Butler <lists@a...> wrote:
>> Quoting Ross McKillop <home@i...>:
>>
>>> Anyone know if this can work without a windows-based server?
>>
>> Not yet, but I should be able to let you know soon :)
>>
>> I'm not sure that the windows software is required for running it
> as such, but
>> maybe is necessary/recommneded for setting it up.
>>
>> Anyway, it's a linux based system itself, so someone is bound to
> hack the thing
>> to do all sorts of funky stuff (in much the same way the xbox
has).
>>
>>> Still looking for the best solution for video and music from
> server
>>> here... the one winning for music appears to be the SliMP3,
> does
>>> everything I need , looks nice, well established and loads of
>>
>> The xbox with XBM does a pretty good job, though I can't be arsed
> setting it up
>> properly (hence the showcenter - spend you way out of lethargy
:)).
>> Might be worth a look?
>>
>> T.
>
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