[LINK] two articles on digital and media and John Howard's govt [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

[Marghanita da Cruz]

Carl Makin wrote:
> 
> On 08/06/2007, at 10:19 AM, Marghanita da Cruz wrote:
> 
>> My brother in-law has a PC Digital TV card and no Television Set in
>> Newcastle - not sure about the Antennae but it picked up the Newcastle
> 
> 
> We've got 2 PCI SD digital cards in a Linux box running MythTV.  It  
> uses the existing tv antenna system which has an amplifier and breaks  
> out to 4 TVs and the video.  The distribution system also feeds the  
> Transact TV signal (mostly nailed to Disney Channel) around the  house.  
> We use both an XBox and an iMac as the frontends.  It has  100GB of disk 
> and it has almost completely changed our TV viewing  habits.

Sounds like you aren't receiving any "wireless"  broadcast services - 
just the
transact cable service.

Meant to mention the Aldi USB card also supports HDTV reception.

> 
> We find we now, by default, record all programs we find interesting,  
> even if we think we'll be home to watch them as they air.  We often  
> don't watch them live even then, but finish putting the kids to bed,  
> make a cup of tea, settle into the chair usually about 20 minutes  after 
> the program has started and then watch the recording.  If the  kids come 
> out to protest going to bed then we can pause until they've  been dealt 
> with.
> 
> We've stopped being a slave to the TV station schedule and their  habit 
> of scheduling interesting programs at the same time.  If the  system 
> broke now my wife would kill me!
> 
> 
> Carl.
> 
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