Recent content by jquin

I re-ran the cable direct from the box, under the floor and straight into the back of the HTPC and it's better though I still get some colour blocking (approx once every 10 minutes). A friend has offered to bring round a SKY HD box for me to compare. If it does the same, I guess it's the dish...

Both ITV HD and Luxe HD were sticky or digitised as well. Most other non HD channels I checked seem to be fine. In DVBDream BBC HD is showing Level:98 Quality:91 - same as BBC 1 London (non HD) which runs fine. I checked I have the latest drivers for the TBS card 1.0.5.4

I'm at work now unfortunately but I'll try ITV HD and Luxe HD tonight and report back.

OK - I'll try that. It's annoyingly about 40feet up but I think I could reach it with a stick from the top floor bathroom window! Some of the bundled software seemed to measure the quality of signal. What % do you think I need for HD or is it not as simple as that?

I am currently building an HTPC and yesterday I installed a TBS DVB-S2 card. I'm afraid I'm totally new to satellite. It did a full scan and found all the channels. The normal channels worked fine (showing quality between 50% and 90%) but BBC HD was very blocky and digitised. I was wondering if...