Best practice Dutch Digital TV Providers

[bongowongo]

As my new house is becoming more and more my house, after intense construction,
I have finally come to the stage of ordering ISP + COAX.
As I would like to have digital television, and I am very scared of ordering the wrong system.
My research shows for instance that the wired KPN system is very restricted, and wireless system not an option.
Without reinventing the wheel I would like to ask Dutch users of LinuxMCE the following.

• Wich digital television system are you using
• Are you happy with it?
• Did everything work out of the box?
• Which equipment did you use?

Maybe we can make a wikipage from your/our findings.

[bongowongo]

Thanks for your input.
But it makes me clear that my deepest black thoughts are true
it is difficult in the Netherlands.
Damn............
I will still put out my attenta's

[daballiemo]

As my new house is becoming more and more my house, after intense construction,
I have finally come to the stage of ordering ISP + COAX.
As I would like to have digital television, and I am very scared of ordering the wrong system.
My research shows for instance that the wired KPN system is very restricted, and wireless system not an option.
Without reinventing the wheel I would like to ask Dutch users of LinuxMCE the following.

• Wich digital television system are you using
• Are you happy with it?
• Did everything work out of the box?
• Which equipment did you use?

Maybe we can make a wikipage from your/our findings.

1) UPC analog
2) Yes, I would not say its the same as digital but my recorded tv is near to perfect
3) Nope, had to setup Myth which is not difficult if you have done about a thousand times before :-)
4) Using PVR-500 & PVR-150

I use http://code.google.com/p/tvgrabnlpy/wiki/Installatie and have added the channels manually after the initial run (takes about 10 minutes)
What i know is that finetuning Myth on recording levels and so on can give you a better experience.

rgds

Han

[bongowongo]

Just to be stuborn and for the sake of trail and error.
I am going to try to get IPTV, through KPN or Tele2.
I will keep you posted how it works.

[bundie]

Hi,

1) I'm using Digitenne.
2) Sort of happy with it, picture quality is not ideal, but more a shortcoming of Digitenne then Mythtv I would say.
3) Nope not really, although if you have experience with mythtv it's not that difficult.
4) I use 2 dreambox dvb-t 500's connected to 2 pvr-250's in my core.

The hard part was letting the dreambox switch to the correct channels. I connected them to my network and use a little bash script to change the channels on them.

Good luck on the IPTV challenge!

Regards,
Reint.