RE: PC PCI tv cards

["Phil Harris" <phil@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> From: ho yin ng [mailto:yahoogroups@xxxxxxx]
> > Do I need any other equipment ? I guess it does all the digital
> > decoding on the card? But do I need my own aerial? or can I
> carry on
> > using a Telewest cable line?
>
> You cannot use a Telewest line for Freeview, in the same way
> that you cannot use a Telewest line for Sky.  It comes in
> through your rooftop aerial, or a portable aerial, if you're
> very lucky.

Ahhh but if you hook an NTL or Telewest feed directly into an aerial
socket then you do actually get the terrestrial TV feeds too (or at
least you used to) ... They pipe them down the same coax as a UHF aerial
feed and before I had the aerial at home sorted out I used to use the
NTL feed into the house (which I have for broadband only) as a signal
source for Analogue Terrestrial. I had wondered whether the DTT signals
just happened to be carried too but they would seem not to be.

Phil




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