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From: "Geoffrey S. Mendelson" <gsm@mendelson.com>
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Subject: DVB-T decoder
Date: Sat, 2 Mar 2013 17:09:03 +0000 (UTC)
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I have a friend who arrived here in Israel with a brand new Mac laptop 
running 10.8. They would like to be able to use it to receive the 
local TV broadcasts. 

The broadcasts are transmitted using the DVB-T system. Windows USB dongles
for DVB-T sell for as little as $10 on eBay, and $20 locally. 

There does not seem to be sold here any for the Mac at all.

The best solution, IMHO would be a driver for the  RTL2832U chipset with
either an E4000 or R820 tuner (both sell for under $20) and VLC support
for them.

VLC will tune and decode the video and audio under Windows and Linux.

However a working package would be good too.

Any information would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

Geoff.

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Geoffrey S. Mendelson,  N3OWJ/4X1GM/KBUH7245/KBUW5379
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