On Tue, 11 Nov 2008, Florin Andrei wrote: > If the Nova-S-Plus can also receive some of the radio stations on Galaxy > 25, then so much better. If not, no big deal. There are a few encrypted radios there, as well as a pay-radio package. Any free radios that you can receive with your present set-top receiver, can also be received with any DVB-S card. As my constant listening to time-shifted programming proves... Cursed sat radio. Were it not for that, I might be doing something completely different and useful with my life instead. Looks as if the majority of programming on this bird is comparable to what can be seen from europe on the Hotbirds satellites -- minus the italian platform and some european broadcasters. No doubt with compression/quality levels that match -- just in case any readers in europe have any interest in the content carried. I don't know how the penetration of FTA DVB-S boxes in the target markets of this satellite compares with that in parts of Europe -- the satellite carriers can profit from the increased bitrate they would see with DVB-S2 while still carrying highly-compressed SD MPEG2, or more likely they could practically triple the number of programmes per transponder by combining DVB-S2 and H.264, and my finger is far removed from the pulse of what any broadcasters, carriers, or playout centres might plan as a migration to more efficient standards in your part of the world. This may be sooner if there is not a large installed base of customer-owned equipment to be obsoleted. Good luck with your card... barry bouwsma _______________________________________________ linux-dvb mailing list linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb
