RE: Blackgold Digital TV cards

["Phil Harris" <phil@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Any users here ?

Yup - well, the Sweetspot badged versions...

> I'm interested to find out if the software provided with them allows
for
> any external control - either via command line switches or at worst
IR.

Ahhh ... mine came with no software as mine are the MCE versions.

> I'm now fully committed to using CharmedQuark for our house automation
> instead of Mainlobby especially as within 15 mins i had Cbus control
to my
> satisfaction from it !!
>
> I would like a DVB card in the machine and have CQ at worst start the
> application up - but would like to do things like fullscreen and
channel
> set
> etc.
>
> If anyone knows the answers or of any other DVB cards that do this
sort of
> thing i'd be most grateful

Can't advise on the software but I have to say that I love the cards
themselves ... they run a bit warm (well, in my current HTPC case they do
as
its ventilation is pretty pants) but given my crap signal here then it
seems
that they hang on to a channel with a grip that can only be equaled by a
Scotsman hanging on to a fiver!

When my Humax and Thomson freeview PVRs are screeching and snatching in bad
weather (we're in a really bad reception area) the Black Golds seem as
though they're being fed from a completely different region!

Phil