Digital Everywhere FireDTV Live-TV card support in Emby ?

[Peter Nent 71]

In Europe (especially), the Digital Everywhere FiredTV cards (also called: FloppyDTV, see http://digital-everywhere.digitaldevices.de/) for DVB-C (and DVB-S2) used to be very popular for MCE usages, especially as they simulated DVB-C into DVB-T which MCE supported. (note: that company was years ago bought by DVB Komponenten, SAT>IP Server, DVB-S2, DVB-C2 | DigitalDevices.de – DVB Komponenten, SAT>IP Server, S2, C2)

How can these FireDTV cards being used in EMBY ? (years ago, I tested them by using DVBlink tool...it worked, but unstable....)

Thnx, Peter

[Luke 42077]

They used to be popular you're saying? So they're not anymore?

[Peter Nent 71]

In 2010, the company Digital Everywhere was bought by the company Digital Devices https://digitaldevices.de/en/home/ and http://digital-everywhere.digitaldevices.de/, and they continued production for a few years; but the good old FireDTV - FloppyDTV cards are still being used now a days. The company Digital Devices has (based on the good old technology of Digital Everywhere) today a wide range of high-end LAN tuner solution for DVB-C, DVB-S2 and DVB-T with CI+ support, etc. and high-end/good driver support. 

The good-old FireDTV and FloppyDTV cards were connected via the Firewire interface to the PC, an interface technology not much being used in modern systems, but actually, it gave christal clear Full-HD picture of super high quality and it supported a technique of DVB-C > DVB-T translations, which was a great advantage for Microsoft MCE, as Microsoft couldn't support DVB-C directly due to TV-provider licensing restrictions (I was told......).

The solution of Digital Everywhere was to use the DVB-T support of MCE and use a sort of translation-transponder table to let MCE believe it received DVB-T channels, where in reality the Digital Everywhere FireDTV of FloppyDTV cards had a DVB-C (or even a DVB-S2) tuner.....

Looking into the future, it is a question wether the DVB-standards will even survive the far simpler IPTV/Streaming technology, although current powerfull,TV-providers still keep using the DVB-standards, probably because of encryption/licensing and installed base reasons.....

Suggestion: after reading this piece of history, I suggest you consider supporting these Digital Everywhere TV-cards only if this doesn't take too much effort?

 

Thnx & best regards,

Peter

[emveepee 132]

Since they use BDA in theory they will work with TV Next assuming you can still install and configure the driver.  Not sure about diseqc for DVB-S/S2 on Windows though so not sure this device is good for all standards.

All digital tuners deliver a raw transport stream so picture quality isn't part of the equation.

Martin

[collainmunro 2]

On 11/2/2023 at 2:23 PM, Peter Nent said:

In 2010, the company Digital Everywhere was bought by the company Digital Devices https://digitaldevices.de/en/home/ and http://digital-everywhere.digitaldevices.de/, and they continued production for a few years; but the good old FireDTV - FloppyDTV cards are still being used now a days. The company Digital Devices has (based on the good old technology of Digital Everywhere) today a wide range of high-end LAN tuner solution for DVB-C, DVB-S2 and DVB-T with CI+ support, etc. and high-end/good driver support. 

The good-old FireDTV and FloppyDTV cards were connected via the Firewire interface to the PC, an interface technology not much being used in modern systems, but actually, it gave christal clear Full-HD picture of super high quality and it supported a technique of DVB-C > DVB-T translations, which was a great advantage for Microsoft MCE, as Microsoft couldn't support DVB-C directly due to TV-provider licensing restrictions (I was told......).

The solution of Digital Everywhere was to use the DVB-T support of MCE and use a sort of translation-transponder table to let MCE believe it received DVB-T channels, where in reality the Digital Everywhere FireDTV of FloppyDTV cards had a DVB-C (or even a DVB-S2) tuner.....

Looking into the future, it is a question wether the DVB-standards will even survive the far simpler IPTV/Streaming technology, although current powerfull,TV-providers still keep using the DVB-standards, probably because of encryption/licensing and installed base reasons.....

Suggestion: after reading this piece of history, I suggest you consider supporting these Digital antenna installation Everywhere TV-cards only if this doesn't take too much effort? 

 

Thnx & best regards,

Peter

I remember those FireDTV cards, they were pretty popular back in the day. I also had some trouble keeping them stable with different tools. Would be cool if Emby had smoother support for them now.