Sat HDTV PCI Card or USB2 Receiver

[channel405]

Hello All,

This is my first post here. I joined thinking this is the definitive source of accurate info on all things satellite!

Can anyone advise me please as to where I can find a satellite HDTV PCI card or even USB2/firewire receiver. Anything I find online turns out to be listed as "tuner" which I take to mean terrestial rather than sat and all sat cards are SD only. I want it for the Euro HD broadcasts on Astra and Hotbird etc. Any suggestions will be gratefully received!

Tim

 

[EDW]

All satellite pci cards are tuner only unless they have onboard hardware decoder. Examples are Skystar 1 and Nexus. I have not seen a HDTV hardware decoder card for europe yet bet the yanks have them $250!

Most popular uk card is Skystar 2, £40 which is software decoder. You need Pentium 4, 2.8g for HDTV or fast Athlon. Graphics card should be 64mb+.

 

[rolfw]

There is a card due to be released soon, the spec is out there and listed in another thread in this section I believe, or perhaps in the HDTV section. You should be able to pick up some of the HDTV channels in DVB-S, but the DVB-S2 card will be the one to own, it will require a high spec PC though.

http://www.dvbshop.net/product_info.php/info/p145_Technotrend-S2-3200-HDTV-S2.html

 

[EDW]

For HDTV (1080i / MPEG4 (AVC/H.264) )

3.4 GHz P4 (Single Core with Hyperthreading) or
2.2 GHz AMD 3500+ or
Dual Core P4 D820 / D830 or
Dual Core AMD X2 3800+
with graphics card: ATI X1600/X1800 or NVidia 6600GT/7600GT

 

[jleal]

Technotrend is going to release in the near future a premium version of that card. You do not need a top of the line computer to run it.

jleal