Any Satalite capture cards for US people?

[Frogbutt]

Are there any capture cards designed for US satalite services like DirectTV? I really want to do digital rips from my satalite but all the digital satalite capture cards iv found are for europe only. The 2 iv found are below, iv tried emailin the companies about a US version but got no response so hopefully someone here will know more.

TT-DVBsat PCI
http://www.technotrend.de/english/products/pcproducts2-2.html

WinTV-DVB-s
http://www.hauppauge.com/html/products.htm#digital

[SHS]

Nope maybe 100 yrs from now hehe.

[loudanddeep]

I think that the provideo 911 is such a card.
I have posted questions about it THREE TIMES(HERE), and had no response.

Check out the provideo website.

dp

[ironwood321]

There are several standard for digital ATSC DVB and ISDB
These basically boil down to different ways of treating signals

There are 2 formats ATSC (USA) DVB / ISDB for the UK/Europe

For terrestrial American transmit in ATSC VSB modulation and UK / Europe transmit in ISDB / DVB QFDM format

For Satellite the UK use DVB QPSK and for Cable they use DVB QAM format.

I think the Americans might use the same or ATSC VSB throughout.

The brooktree chip used by many capture cards can accept a digital signal though its IO port when processed by an appropriate chip and then through a standard MPEG decoder chip any CAM can be plugged into the PCI bus and CIM CAM be utilised from a certain address.

Chips Philips of interest include
DVB-T OFDM TDA10045H_4.pdf
DVB-T ATSC TDA8961 TDA8980.pdf

DVB-C QAM cable TDA10021HT_4.pdf

DVD-S QPSK TDA10085_4.pdf

For mpeg stream decoders look at
MPEG2 Source Decoder SAA7214_N_3.pdf or
MPEG2 Transport SAA7240_1.pdf

and finally conextant Fusion878A datasheets and application notes.

I am surprised Hauppauge don't do a card suitable for the US system. Their terrestrial card does not support Mediaguard/Seca CAM as of yet but I believe there satellite cards support CAM's like video crypt etc.


<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: ironwood321 on 2002-01-06 17:29:46 ]</font>

[SatStorm]

look out for hauppauge win tv dvb/s
It is capable to receive most of the dvb/s mpeg 2 transmissions. You have to use the windvblive software
look here: http://www.odsoft.org
Works with NTSC

In US you have many digital satellite transmission systems...
mpeg 1.5 is one of them, totaly unsupported. Is the xDVB/s system!
Motorola's Digi Chipher is more common. There is on card for this system.
mpeg 2 dvb/s is not so common yet there. But is the future!
good luck!