Digital TV on your PC

Revision as of 22:21, 12 February 2008

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

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.