Enroute to building a decent PVR : Are dvb-t cards any good ?

["Shaf Ali" <shaf@xxxxxxxx>]

Hi got 2 questions that I hope someone could help me.

1) Having just got my house complete with cat5e cabling ............
( Damn it things move on - I wish I knew about multicore cables (coax,
cat5, cat6 and fibre) all bundled up in one))
............... I didn't route through the TV aerial from the loft :( *DOH*

Is there anyway to extend the aerial coax via cat5e which I can link from
the loft and then to whereever I want ? The only thing I have seen is a
'MuxLab RF/TV balun' which just looks like a simple filter to me.

2) Has anyone got any experience with DVB-s (sat cards for the pc) and
DVB-c (cable cards for the pc) or should I just go with DVB-t if I can
resolve issue 1 ? Can you get HD from DVB-t  and whats the quality like ?

Cheers,
Shaf



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