How to watch dvb s/s2 TV channels on your laptop

Do you want to experience a variety of entertainment available on your laptop? Do
you want to watch and record hundreds of dvb HDTV channels on your disk ? if you are definitely interested in watching watch dvb s/s2 tv on laptop, you wouldn’t impossibly hear of tv cards fo laptop. With this kind of sat pc card, the customized version of the most popular Satellite tv card software, you could enjoy the full range of popular features as its original version: the functions include: time shifting, electronic program guides (EPG), digital video recording, teletext and subtitle.

How to Use SkyGrabber Download Satellite Data by satellite TV card

Do you still have to keep an online internet connection when you download satellite data? Do you still fret with finding some software which enables you record favorite TV shows offline? If you have a digital satellite tv tuner card, you can use the skygrabber download air (FTA) satellite data (movie, music, pictures) offline. This software can deal with all of your annoying problems. For it has many advantages, I'm afraid you'll fall in love with it. Take TBS DVB-S2 dual tuner Card 6981 for example, we will teach you how to use skygrabber download via this dvb s tv card.  Before we get started, let’s just have a look: what’s SkyGrabber and what’s TBS DVB-S2 dual tuner Card 6981.

How to watch MythTV television with TV tuner card?

Questions:
I’d like to be able to get a pc tuner card. I really don’t know much about these cards, so I’d really like some help. All I know is that it has to be compatible with linux MythTV. Can someone suggest a suitable MythTV tuner card for me so I can watch MythTV ?

——Yahoo Answer

 
MythTV is a free and open source home entertainment application with a simplified “10-foot user interface” design for the living-room TV, and turns a computer with the necessary hardware into a network streaming digital video recorder, a digital multimedia home entertainment system, or Home Theater Personal Computer. It can be considered as a free and open source alternative to Tivo or Windows Media Center. It runs on various operating systems, primarily Linux/Mac/FreeBSD.

Which TV tuner card can work with Linux MythTV?
Actually, MythTV software supports TV tuner cards fully compatible with V4L-DVB kernel drivers.
I search in Google, it told me that “Hauppauge” card was known to be compatible. However, I could not find it anywhere in the market (SP Road, Bangalore, India). On going to one of buydvb shops, I found a “TBS TV Tuner card”. I had heard from many people before that TBS TV Tuner was a good card for Linux both in terms of quality of decoding and software provided.

Here I introduce TBS TV Tuner card of QBOX3, it’s not only an video TV card, but also a MythTV tuner card compliant with Linux Ubuntu/Fedora and Windows 2000/XP/Vista. It supports both DVB-S2 and DVB-S programs receiving. It’s a mini metal box for watching and recording digital satellite TV on computer.

How to setup MythTV software so you can watch MythTV televisions?

There’re lots of installation instructions on internet, here I only mentioned it briefly. Setup MythTV backend preferences and tune TV cards, open a Terminal Window and type > MythTV-setup, you will now see the GUI for MythTV to setup the backend server and in particular the channel tuning for our broadcast streams. You will need to set up:

1. General — General Backend settings, most user can use the defaults
2. Capture Cards — you will configure your capture cards/devices here
3. Video Sources — create guide data.
4. Input connections — connect the Capture Card name to the Video Source
5. Channel Editor — scan for your channels here
6. Storage Groups — configure which folders your recordings will be saved.

On entering each screen, the cursor is positioned at the bottom right on the “Next” button. The cursor may not be visible. Use the up, down, left, and right cursor keys to make selections. Fields marked with up and down arrows can be modified by pressing the PageUp and PageDown keys or the left and right cursor keys; in some cases, the action is different. For example, when setting times, cursor left and cursor right change the time by minutes, while Page Up and Page Down change by half hours. Some fields, notably text fields, accept direct keyboard input. For many fields, context-sensitive help appears in the bottom part of the screen when you position on the field.

Tips: If you have more than one TV card, you only need to do the channel scan on one of the cards. All cards of the same type should point to the same video source.
When you scan for your channels make sure that you put in a frequency that corresponds to the transmitter that you will be receiving from, for instance Crystal Palace. You can find out the frequency on the web for your country and region. At last, enjoy your MythTV life.

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Champions League final 2011: Barcelona are the best team ever, says Graeme Souness

Graeme Souness's garlanded European career at Liverpool encompassed the humbling of Real Madrid and the vanquishing of Roma, but the Scot has made up his mind: the Barcelona team on display on Saturday night are simply the “best side ever”.

 

While accepting arguments for Brazil’s World Cup winners in 1970, or the AC Milan vintage of Franco Baresi and Marco van Basten, Souness explained: “I think they’re the best side ever and that, in Lionel Messi, they have got the best player ever.

It’s what you dream about. Everyone has come up with a plan to beat this team. There isn’t one. What makes them so special is that they have players who, no matter you do to them to try to nullify them, always come up with an answer.”

Souness, who won three European Cup medals under Bob Paisley, predicted Messi would defy all Manchester United’s attempts to mark him out of Saturday’s final: Where do you start, where do you stop?

I don’t think you can mark him. Maybe 25 years ago, you could put someone physical there and then when he gets a yellow card, find someone else.

You can’t do that any more. He has got such quick feet that the ball seems to be a piece of elastic. And that’s when he’s sprinting.”

The 58 year-old savoured glory at Wembley, where Liverpool beat FC Bruges in 1978, and he argued the key to United upsetting the odds would be discipline in midfield: When Liverpool were dominating this competition, the first thing we were told to get right was to get the ball back.

Barcelona will be on you like a swarm of bees. You can’t allow them to get their heads up and make cute, clever passes — they keep the ball in such tight areas that you have to have a really disciplined midfield.

If you can withstand that and get through the initial wave, that’s how you can hurt this team.”

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How to watch DVB-S2 Satellite TV with dvb-s2 TV tuner

DVB-S2 is a digital satellite transmission system developed by the DVB Project. Satellite transmission was the first area addressed by the DVB Project in 1993 and DVB standards form the basis of most satellite DTV services around the world today, and therefore of most digital TV in general. It makes use of the latest modulation and coding techniques to deliver performance that approaches the theoretical limit for such systems. DVB-S2 will not replace DVB-S in the short or even the medium term, but makes possible the delivery of services that could never have been delivered using DVB-S.

The world’s first digital satellite TV services were launched in Thailand and South Africa at the end of 1994 and both used the newly released DVB-S system. Now it has become the most popular system for the delivery of digital satellite television, with more than 100 million receivers deployed around the world. With the system being more than 10 years old, the industry eventually decided the time was right to update.
DVB-S2 is envisaged for broadcast services including standard and HDTV, interactive services including Internet access, and (professional) data content distribution. The development of DVB-S2 coincided with the introduction of HDTV and H.264 (MPEG-4 AVC) video codecs.

What is DVB-S2 TV Card receiver
The DVB TV card including DVB-S card and DVB-S2 card are designed for receiving, decoding and displaying DVB (Digital Video Broadcasts) transmitted via satellite for people to watch digital TV on a standard Personal Computer. They include a hardware MPEG decoder and a composite video output, so the digital TV program can be displayed both on the PC monitor and an external TV set.
Compared to the DVB-S card receiver, two new key features of DVB-S2 card that were added are:
* DVB-S2 card has a more powerful coding scheme based on a modern LDPC code.
* DVB-S2 card also support VCM (Variable Coding and Modulation) and ACM (Adaptive Coding and Modulation) modes, which allow optimizing bandwidth utilization by dynamically changing transmission parameters.

Other features of the new generation of DVB card include enhanced modulation schemes up to 32APSK, additional code rates, and the introduction of a generic transport mechanism for IP packet data including MPEG-4 audio–video streams, while supporting backward compatibility with existing MPEG-2 TS based transmission.
The standard document claims that the DVB-S2 card performance gain over DVB-S card is around 30% at the same satellite transponder bandwidth and emitted signal power. When the contribution of improvements in video compression is added, an (MPEG-4 AVC) HDTV service can now be delivered in the same capacity that supported an early DVB-S card based MPEG-2 SDTV service only a decade before.

How to watch dvb-s2 satellite TV with DVB S2 receiver card
1. Choose a DVB S2 receiver that will work with your computer. There are two basic types: a PCI/PCI-E (PCI Express, it’s a computer expansion card standard designed to replace the older PCI bus standards.) card that is internally installed and an external Tuner Card with a USB plug. Get a card that receives HD satellite signals (though a basic analog Tuner Card can still work).
2. Install the dvb s2 reciver card to your computer.
3. Connect your satellite receiver box to the computer through the Tuner Card. The card will have an RF coaxial and/or RCA composite ports. Disconnect the receiver box's output from your TV and connect it to the card with a coaxial or RCA cable.
4. Turn the computer on. You will likely get a pop-up for the new hardware you installed. Insert the CD-ROM that came with the card and run the enclosed software. This will install the drivers needed for your operating system to run the card.
5. Start up the TV Tuner program, which you installed in the CD software's last step. If your satellite TV antenna is working and the cable is properly connected, the satellite TV broadcast will appear on the program's screen. After all process finished, you can watch satellite TV channels on your pc.

Compatibility list of DVB-S, DVB-S2 cards manufactures:
TBS 6981(dual tuner card)
TBS Q-Box 3(usb tuner card)
Anysee (E30S Plus, etc)
AverMedia DVB-S
Azurewave
BroadLogic
Compro VideoMate DVB-S
Hauppauge

PCI-E TV Tuner Card TBS6981 only $138.99

PCI-E DVB-S2 Dual Tuner TV card is the professional dvb-s2 tv tuner,it supports dual DVB-S2 TV channels receiving synchronously, which enables you to watch channel from one transporder/satellite while recording another channel from another transporder/satellite. Or you can use one channel for data download while watching TV in another channel in the same time.

Pay-TV revenues in Western Europe "will not grow" over next five years

Annual pay-TV subscription revenues in Western Europe are predicted to remain flat over the next five years, despite operators continuing to add subscribers, as Average Revenues Per User (ARPUs) fall almost across the board, according to a new report from Digital TV Research.

Kenya's Wananchi to start satellite TV service in July

NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenyan telecoms firm Wananchi Group plans to launch a pay satellite television service in July to rival South Africa-based Naspers' DSTV across east Africa after getting new capital injection, its head said on Tuesday.

How to watch DVB S/S2 TV channels with DVB-S2 TV Card receiver

DVB-S2 is a digital satellite transmission system developed by the DVB Project. Satellite transmission was the first area addressed by the DVB Project in 1993 and DVB standards form the basis of most satellite DTV services around the world today, and therefore of most digital TV in general. It makes use of the latest modulation and coding techniques to deliver performance that approaches the theoretical limit for such systems. DVB-S2 will not replace DVB-S in the short or even the medium term, but makes possible the delivery of services that could never have been delivered using DVB-S.

What's smart card and smart tv card reader

1. What's Smart card
A smart card is any pocket-sized card with embedded integrated circuits. It may also provide strong security authentication for single sign-on (SSO) within large organizations.

Utah Jazz: Jimmer Fredette a match made in NBA Draft heaven?

CHICAGO — For four years, Jimmermania has been building up in Utah. Has it possibly not reached a crescendo in the state?
The Jazz have two of the top dozen picks in the June 23 NBA Draft. A source said Thursday that while Jimmer Fredette isn't being looked at for Utah's No. 3 selection, he definitely will be given consideration if available at No. 12.

Broadcom Hardware Decoder BCM970012 released on April 30!!

Hardware decoder in the PCI Express Mini Card form factor. Enables support for H.264 and VC-1 video playback of local files and streaming 1080p high definition multimedia content.