Thanks for that Rolf
I actually quite like dvbviewer and was impressed by the electronic tv guide etc as this was something the pentamedia cards drivers did not cater for and i would have to trawl the tv guide websites to check out what was on.
i cannot get progdvb to work unfortunately and i have tried everything the forums and websites around the net suggest but it just will not see the skystar 2 card. I dont use XP but i am probably going to use 64 bit XP at some point when i upgrade to athlon 64 some point soon i hope. Microsoft give a free beta version from there website available for 1 year but i expect that will have too many bugs to be viable. checked but do not have win NT 2000 floating i could have installed that on to an 8 gig HD i have and just used it for satellite and browsing the Net.
why does mytheatre have to be v2.76? can it not be the latest version?
I dont have windows 2000 or xp so unless i can get a hold of it then i will have to find a way to work it in win 98 upgrade 2

when you say drop the file into the MDPlugins directory is that directory already there or like dvbviewer using yagtze do you have to create it?
sorry this is all new stuff to me