litte off topic but if you type in the word “hack” into the address bar in firefox… well, just go and see

If I’m reading this right, it’s simply a method of displaying one’s PC screen on a dvb-t receiver ( (which assumingly does not have VGA inputs) without a converter box. Seeing as how it nearly requires hardwiring to the receiver, one is not “broadcasting” persay…

Everyone else would simply get a TV-ready card w/ an S-Video, component, composite, etc output port…

But if all one has is dvb-t, then one does what they must…

This is really, really cool. I’d wondered about using a video DAC like this, but most of ‘em seem to enforce blanking during retraces. But for a digital signal, that can be covered up by error correction in the receiver, I guess. nifty!

einstein–that’s because typing into the address bar is the same as typing hack into Google and clicking, “I’m feeling lucky”.

sleighboy–holy shit your memory is good! :o

I noticed that he is only using one of the 3 available dac’s (3 colors) so he should be able to run 3 screens at the same time?

Also, it looks like his software can only display images, and you loose videocard functionality. Is this right?

Man it would be cool if you could (by installing a diferent driver) turn your videocard into a tri-tv driving card for mad desktop extension.

This is pretty damn cool, its a modulator, which is part of a transmitter but you can’t really broadcast with a modulator alone. Add a few stages of amplifaction and an antenna and your broadcasting. Don’t forget to put lots of filters in between because pirate broadcasting is bad enough, you don’t want to be interfearing with everything in the spectrum.

This is what I would call a real hack, using something that was never even close to designed for the application but with a bit of creativity dose the job.

Nice! Except it isn’t available in the US. The DVB standard is supported in the 2.6 Linux kernels so it works in Europe. However the US is still using older methods of sending out video. The Europeans converted about the turn of the century to that format (DVB) so they can do that. And indeed the site he mentions for this device is only French and UK English.

Nice! Except it isn’t available in the US. The DVB standard is supported in the 2.6 Linux kernels so it works in Europe. However the US is still using older methods of sending out video. The Europeans converted about the turn of the century to that format (DVB) so they can do that. And indeed the site he mentions for this device is only French and UK English.