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Old 2005-04-16, 19:40   #1 (permalink)
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I live in Finland and I already have TT DVB-C 2300 Card but that card is not supported in MP So I am thinkinkg to byu FireDTV DVB-C !

My question is that does that card work great with all functions in MP?
Can I use conax cam (ver 4.0) with that card and see (HTV)Pay channels?

Does that card use BDA drivers?

Does TimeShift work?

Does it support HDTV?

IS that card best choise with MP and Windows ( also in future)?

Can I also use my new Imon PAD remote with MP and that card ?

Thanks Alot!!

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Frodo! Can you answer to my question?

Thank you!

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Hi!

I live in Finland and I already have TT DVB-C 2300 Card but that card is not supported in MP So I am thinkinkg to byu FireDTV DVB-C !

My question is that does that card work great with all functions in MP?
Can I use conax cam (ver 4.0) with that card and see (HTV)Pay channels?

Does that card use BDA drivers?

Does TimeShift work?

Does it support HDTV?

IS that card best choise with MP and Windows ( also in future)?

Can I also use my new Imon PAD remote with MP and that card ?

Thanks Alot!!

/ Ville
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Don't know - I think so
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Errmm not sure - probably if you have a decent processor and HDTV MPEG-2 codec.
Depends whether you want to use Firewire or not.
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Thank you for your answer!! :lol:

I will order FireDTV as soon as possible! :idea:
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I will order FireDTV as soon as possible!
I am going to order this week, a FireDTV-S

The BDA drivers for Media Portal are now on the Digital Everywhere site :
**from this page**
**Dwnld BDA drv**

I have read a comparison test between My Theatre and Media Portal, with Fire DTV : Media Portal has not very good results
Have a look : **Here**
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Hi!

I think that comparison is quite old and now everything should work quite well with MP and FireDTV or will be fixed quite soon!
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I think that comparison is quite old and now everything should work quite well with MP and FireDTV or will be fixed quite soon!
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Hello ,

I ordered yesterday the Fire DTV-S to Digital Everywhere in Austria

DE wait from me a kind of beta test for their hardware on the French num. Sat TV market (pay and Free TV), on Astra and HB4
They wait also from me all the possible tests on Media Portal with the last BDA drivers (from their site), on different PC (it's easy with firewire tuner like this one)

I will also try HDTV and will see if it's OK on Media Portal

I will write here all the results of my tests

Best regards
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