Yep, same with other manufacturers, unfortunatelly I haven't seen any OSX PCIe TV card so I think I'll have to wait a few more years
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PCI-X TV Tuner for MacPro
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Yep, same with other manufacturers, unfortunatelly I haven't seen any OSX PCIe TV card so I think I'll have to wait a few more years
Nothing, just is not PCIe, is firewire, just a personal taste I guess, by the way with FloppyDTV can you watch DirectTV, Dish Networks and Sky?
I believe that currently there is no technology limit to digital TV of any known spec. I am running the FireDTV-S2 with an Alphacrypt conditional access modul (CAM) for SKY HDTV in Germany. I get DVB-S2 with 50 MBit/s streams in H.264 coding. The quality is impressive and there is no problem whatsoever with the FW interface. So if you buy the correct access technology for your provider you should be able to have an internal solution. The access modul would obviously stick out on the rear side of the MP, but that would apply to any internal solution. I know only one hardware which uses a USB connected CAM and that did not really work when I tested it.
I don't care about connecting the CAM in the back part, I'm used to do it, so if this works flawlessly with Sky HD in germany I hope it works with Sky in Latin America.
I would caution on the use of a suitable CAM though. If you are sure that you can get one for SKY in your country it will be fine. Here in Germany they are using Nagravision cards with a tunneled Betacrypt system. Sky is known to have much harder to substitute systems in the UK. They use NDS there which has a box key that prevents you to use alternative hardware.
hmm I see, I will investigate if first to see which CAM card are used in this country.
Thanks for the advice.
Not quite true. The CAMs that can read Sky UK cards also read the box ID from it somehow, so it works fine. The ID is only needed for "premium" channels like sports and movies, and if you had to you can get the box ID from the Sky box that the card was paired with. I have a generic DVB-S2 receiver and my card works great in it (but only the channels I am paying for, before someone complains about illegal activity).
Whether the CAMs will continue to work when Sky complete their card swap, is a different matter.
Also, I thought Premiere (as it was then) announced they were moving to NDS? Surely the News Corp influence over Sky will make that happen?
I originally wanted a PCI TV tuner for my Mac Pro, but couldn't really find much. I ended up getting an Elgato EyeTV Hybrid refurb from OWC for like $80, and it works perfectly.
The system info says it's actually a Hauppauge WinTV HVR-980.
The system info says it's actually a Hauppauge WinTV HVR-980.
Yes, Sky (Premiere) are also moving to NDS. But they have a huge base of installed hardware that uses the Betacrypt system that they commited the old system until 2012. So I will get some milage out of my present equipment. The problem is to get an old nagra card issued. You have to somehow convince the Sky guys that you have an old receiver. This is done by a seriel number which you can easily generate yourself with software found on the internet.
So guys do you thing Sky in Latin America still doesn't uses NDS?
By the way I think your paid channels can work without a CI device right (not asking how just asking if that's possible)?
No idea how it works in Latin America. We used to have a burgoning card hacking and soft CAM practise in Germany in 2001-2008. All the smart cards were hacked and there was some evidence that competitors were doing the hacking or being helpfull. Premiere probably had mor illegal viewers than payed subscriptions. One year ago they scapped all old cards and went to Nagra and NDS. I'm not aware that there are any soft CAMs for those but people "share" cards over fast networks and the internet. All such activities are obviously illegal and should not be encouraged.