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  • 17-12-2010 1:00am
    #1
    TheZohanS
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,582 ✭✭✭✭


    Ok I've done a search and can't find an answer so far...

    I'm looking for recommendations for a good TV card for my HTPC that will enable me to get Freeview/Freesat and Saorview. I have two free satellite connections coming into my sitting room so a card that has the same functionalities as a SKYHD box would be ideal i.e PVR.

    I live in an apartment so sticking up an outdoor aerial for the Irish digital stations would be tricky, would I be able to receive them via the satellite cables?

    Price is not really an issue on the card as I don't mind spending a few € on something solid that will do the job. My system has an Intel Q6600 & a 9600GT graphics card & I'm running Win7 Ultimate if that makes any difference.


    Thanks (really mean it!),

    TheZohan


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  • #2
    akamossie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 646 ✭✭✭akamossie


    I don't think you can get Saorview via satellite, and for the aerial you can use indoor one, I personally don't have outdoor aerial, the indoor one works like a charm.


  • #3
    watty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,417 ✭✭✭✭watty


    No Saorview via satellite yet. RTE NL hope to have Saorsat on rented space on Ka-Sat, Launching the end of Dec 2010. Tests end of April 2011.
    You need a special Ka-band LNBF pointed at 9E with a separate dish or offset multifeed.

    http://www.saortv.info/satellite-saorsat/
    http://www.saortv.info/satellite-saorsat/saorsat-reception/


  • #4
    watty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,417 ✭✭✭✭watty


    akamossie wrote: »
    I don't think you can get Saorview via satellite, and for the aerial you can use indoor one, I personally don't have outdoor aerial, the indoor one works like a charm.

    An indoor aerial only works for those near a transmitter. Otherwise an Attic or Roof aerial. Just like Analogue UHF TV.
    http://www.saortv.info/terrestrial-saorview/


  • #5
    STB
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,178 ✭✭✭STB


    Any apartment complex with a bit of cop on have UHF aerial and satellite combined which is separated again at points in apartment.

    Combo PC Card
    Medion TV Karte Creatix CTX 1924 DVB-S DVB-S2 DVB-T €65
    attachment.php?attachmentid=134467&stc=1&d=1289436752

    The rest is done by software.

    Windows 7 has H264 natively so the in built media centre will do the rest.

    You will need a very big satellite dish to receive it in NY, perhaps even a dish from the Kennedy Space Centre.


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