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).<div><br>
</div><div>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?</div><div><br></div><div>
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.</div>
<div><br></div><div>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.<br>
<div><br>-- <br>Regards,<br>James.<br><br><a href="http://www.jamesbensley.co.cc/">http://www.jamesbensley.co.cc/</a><br><br>
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