Simon Baxter wrote: > Hi. > > I'm currently using a Nova-T card for terrestrial DVB, but would like to > add a DVB-C card and connect to cable. Yeh, that works like a charm. > Am I right in assuming that channels on cable are organised much like on > terrestrial, with 3 or 4 transponder frequencies carrying 3 or 4 > channels each? I wonder, because as the cable is provided by a single > supplier, I wasn't sure how the channels are mapped. In the UK at least, you'll find about 20 'transponders', each of which carries about 10 TV channels in QAM64. > Secondly, are channels that require CAM decrypting all generally on the > same transponder? Or are these pay-channels interspersed with the free- > to-air ones across the frequencies? Yes, there's at least a 'BBC' and an 'ITV/C4/5' which are all FTA. Pretty much everything else is crypted except the TV shopping channels and the radio stations. Cheers, Gavin.
