View source for Digital TV on your PC

<nowiki>Insert non-formatted text here</nowiki>Definition of HD and SD tv 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-definition_television

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard-definition_television

'''Useful links 
Discussion of various DBTV card brands, Operating system builds/front ends orientated towards mutimedia use
and HTPC configurations ''' 

http://www.dba.org.au/
Basic overview of DTV in Australia, regional coverage maps, more orientated to set top box use

http://www.xpmediacentre.com.au/community/index.php
Aus based forum with wealth of info on how to get the best from Microsoft's media orientated versions of XP & Vista

http://forums.dvbowners.com/index.php?
Another Aus based forum with some good freeware apps for viewing, recording, scheduling

Home forum of the best freeware app for digital viewing / recoding / timeshift.   
"Digital Watch II" developed by 'Nate', 'Bear' et al, last ver hosted at http://mediapix-australia.com/htpc/

If you want a fast starting DTV prog with almost instant channel switching this is the best for XP based systems (also works on Vista)

http://www.team-mediaportal.com/
Media Portal, open source front end for windows based machines.
performs better than Microsoft XP media center editions in most instances
(more tweaking /setup required)

http://www.mythtv.org/
Linux app which turns a computer with the necessary hardware into a digital TV viewer/video recorder & multimedia
home entertainment center.

OCAU's wiki page for [[MythTV]] - with lots of information and details of other OCAU members' setups.


==More Links==
* [[Audio Visual]], [[HTPC]], [[Sound Card]], [[Windows XP DVB Tuner Setup]],[[Windows MCE]] & [[Windows Media Center Edition]]