Re: NTL Digital TV quality (was Re: [ILUG] Broadband in Dublin) John Molohan wrote:
> Gavin McCullagh wrote:
>> On Tue, 09 Oct 2007, Martin List-Petersen wrote:
>>
>>  
>>>> Purely out of curiosity, any links to hardware that would achieve 
>>>> this?
>>>>       
>>> Something like this:
>>> http://www.digitalrise.biz/products/dvb_tuner/cab/pci_ci/
>>>     
>>
>> Nice.  I hadn't seen one with built-in card interface before.
>>
>> Gavin
>>
>>   
> Any chance someone here has used one of these with NTL/linux and can 
> confirm it works?
>
> John
You would be ill advised.

1) UPC are changing encryption soon, so any DVB-c may become worthless.
2) In Ireland it is a criminal offence to connect unapproved equipment 
to cable.
3) A separate offence to obtain Pay TV without proper payment.

Almost all the non-cable company equipment used (Setboxes, DVB-c cards 
etc) in Ireland is used to obtain TV without payment, officially "theft 
of service"  rather than piracy.

Stick to FTA or pay TV satellite. Hugely better quality and much cheaper 
equipment.

-- 
Mike


