To expand on my earlier post about running Freeview to my TV via my laptop, I’ve made some improvements and now it’s actually quite good. Here’s what I’ve changed;

• Dumped MediaPortal in favour of dvbviewer, so it’s now stable and I can actually do other things at the same time;
• Bought a 3m HDMI cable so my laptop can reach the couch and the TV;
• Found a $5 S/PDIF to optical adaptor so I can run digital sound directly to my 5.1 speaker system (hopefully something on Freeview actually has surround sound…)

There’s still nothing on, though. ;(