Recent content by yant

Hi, I am looking to possibly changing my Hauppauge HVR3000 for a Skystar2 for satellite reception in order to get better sensitivity and maybe correct some reception problems I have (see my other thread). I am trying to get Hotbird with an old sky dish but I suspect either the dish is too...

Thanks for the reply Proph. Quite an impressive piece of kit this receiver. I decided to go for the hauppauge since I am set on a HTPC. Hopefully this card is not a mistake compared to a SkyStar. Oh well, if I don't like it, I can probably sell it on ebay for twice what I paid :-) I'll...

Thanks for your reply. So if I understand a softcam wouldn't work with that card and it wouldn't offer a daughter board for CAM and card like the skystar does but it would be fine for free to air channels. And that I probably can't record from two of the tuners at the same time. I can live...

Hi, I'd like some opinions of the Hauppauge HVR-3000. Is it worth buying? Is it a good card? How does it compare to a skystar2 or other popular DVB-S only cards. http://www.hauppauge.co.uk/pages/products/data_hvr3000.html I am in the process of building a HTPC. I'd like it to be able to...