TV on Ubuntu?

[James Bensley]

As you said with either a dongle or a TV Tuner/Decoder card, you can receive
FreeView (but this would require an areal). FreeSat requires dish, hence the
name FreeSat (A free service like FreewView over satellite).

In regards to your VM question. Do you mean you want to watch one channel of
you VM box via your TV and record another simultaneously on your Ubuntu box
all coming dome the same cable?

This is possible from the infrastructure point of view, i.e. I used to have
VM and if you get a V+ box with a hard drive you can watch one channel and
record another. If you want to use your computer for this you are going to
have troubles. VM set top boxes only have one TV output (yeah they HDMI and
RGB and S-Video but they all show the same thing). A VM box can't display
two different channels out of two different outputs so that you could feed
one into your Ubuntu box.

You would need a TV card which takes a cable feed and can decode the signal
coming in, AND you would need to make it read your VM card (in your set top
box) so that you could actually get the service so I think that method isn't
actually going to happen sadly.

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Regards,
James.

http://www.jamesbensley.co.cc/
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