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GermanMay main supplier for my DVB equipment is Hauppauge.com.
This is the only fitting newsgroup I found:
alt.video.satellite.mpeg-dvb,
FAQ are provided.
I'm not sure, whether I will ever need that, as I already have DVB-S and DVB-T equipment.
I got some hardware and software from Hauppauge.com. My satellite dish has 2 LNB-s and a DISEC switch mounted. I already have a Philips satellite decoder with a long list of channels programmed. I keep struggling with the channel list of my Hauppauge satellite decoder.
I had to learn, that there is also pre-DVB (“analogous”) TV and radio broadcasting.
I purchased some equipment from Hauppauge.com around 2002/2003 (a PCI card and a USB box with Windows software), as in Berlin they stopped broadcasting TV channels analogously in early 2003.
It lets me record the TV stream on file as MPEG2 with a resolution of 768x576.
I tried to cut an S-VCD
(with a 20 minutes / 400 MB video sequence from www.KiKa.de)
from that.
PAL S-VCD only allows a maximum resolution of 352x288,
and the cutting software didn't downsize the resolution by itself,
so I wasn't lucky with that attempt.