how happy are you ?

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andysly

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just a thought

how happy are you with your pc based sat system.
does it live up to your demands .
does it make you feel all warm when the closed channels are opened up.
is there anything else you would like to do with you system.
what could/would add to make it better for you.
and what spec is your pc you use to run it on.


im happy with my skystar set up. it does everyting the high end rx units...
id love to see more hd channels

i would love to see a twin tuner version .
the spec of my media center pc is as follows..

amd athlon 3200 64bit 1 gig of pc3200 sound blaster live 7.1

800 gig of storage, nvidea 6200, dual layer dvd rw

20inch hd tv hooked up via dvi on my videocard.

i now have 3 dishes the usal hotbird astra useing a 90cm dish and mono block 60cm on hipsat and a 45cm on the astra cluster at 28deg...

i would love to have a setup for feed hunting and alike..


regards andy ..
 
Very happy, I could do with a bit more processing power to cope with the HD stuff but otherwise it suits my needs exactly, plays dvd, does sat tv and moves my motor on channel change, freeview and topuptv and serves all my digital media

I'm using:

XP 2200+
512mb 3200
300Gb SATA
Nvidia 6600gt
Twinhan 1030 dvbs with progdvb
Moteck sg2100
Nebula dvbt with digitv HD
5.1 audio via spdif and an av amp
all in a Thermaltake tenor case
controled by an iMON rsc remote and a wirless keyboard
Image is provided by a Themescene HD70, image is 81 inches diagonal (makes for some interesting viewing) :)
 
Does a skystar I decode HD? If it does I could put one in my HTPC and watch it though my projector :) Then I'd be happy :D
 
well it definetly wouldn't do it on HW but i think it can do it on software, like a skystar 2 (but then again, it's not the card itself that decodes it, it's the cpu+gpu if any acceleration enabled innit?). I reckon there's some threads about that on dvbn...
btw, when talking about HDTV by all means try to precise, as there's mpeg2 and mpeg4/AVC/H.264 which is a totally different ball game m8 ;)

oh and yeah, it obviously doesn't do any dvb-s2 which unfortunatly tends to go along HD these days
 
I'm on the process of renewing my setup into core 2 duo, and 2x skystar 2 so i'll get back to this thread to say how happy i will be then - hopefully VERY VERY happy :D:D
 
I would be a hell of a lot happier if there where some D+ keys out there that actually worked. Does anyone remember working D+ keys? Those where the days….
 
I meant skystar 2- software decoding of hidef needs a hefty machine.

Does skystar 2 decode hidef (using hardware rather than software)? BY hidef I mean BBC HD and similar stuff. I've tried decoding a hidef film using coreAVC and it was unwatchable- killed the machine- and coreAVC is supposed to be the best...
 
Mine certainly does now :E6600 on asus P5B deluxe, 2GB ram teamgroup xtreem, 6600GT gpu :D

i think your getting the hw/sw terms a bit mingled though
 
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