As I've just been told that the scaffolding currently surrounding the communal aerial in my neighbourhood will be up for months, I'm looking at purchasing a DVB-S card. The terrestrial analogue reception is just terrible, so much that my dvb-t cards keep choking and dying.
As I'm in the UK, and have a shared satellite dish I've been interested in using the Sky Freesat service. I've read on avforums that people have managed to get their freesat and even paytv cards working with TT T3200S cards + CI card + CAM. Unfortunately they're all using Windows MCE and the information is heavily windows specific.
As I've no interest in HDTV (or windows), I was hoping to go for a cheaper card. Does anyone using VDR in the UK currently have this setup working? Would you care to mention the hardware you have?
I'd only be looking for the full freesat channel line-up, specifically all the freeview channels I currently can't see! :-) I won't be subscribing to Sky Tv.
One major issue is I don't have an extra coax cable heading to my vdr server. I was planning on installing the dvb-s card in my client and using another vdr server working in conjunction with the 'master'. Installing another cable will mean digging up 25m of earth and shifting some paving slabs :-/
Principally I'd like the whole setup to seem transparent in that I can record from the 2 dvb-t cards or the dvb-s card using the same epg, and shared recordings folders etc. Is this feasible? This is secondary to just getting a proper digital tv service working in our living room.