TV Cards

Orville

Hi.

Wondered if you guys could help...

In my flat i have a coax socket in the wall in the living room. This is apparently linked to one in my bedroom. This enables me to watch sky in my bedroom, but with the restriction of only being able to watch what is on the box in the living room. At the moment i have not actually set this up as i do not have a TV in the bedroom. However this is where i have my PC. What i am wondering is this. Can i install a TV Card into my pc with a coaxal port so i can watch my sky through that via my pc monitor..?

If anyone can help i'd appreciate it and also if someone could post a link to a card i would be very gratefull. I am not after a mega expensive one, but one that will do the job.

fwor

Yes - any DVB-S tuner card should do the job. Hauppauge are a good make, but I've no doubt there are cheaper ones:

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/101065

As you probably already know, you can't connect more than one satellite receiver to an LNB in the dish, so you would need a dual LNB (or quad LNB which actually seem cheaper than dual at the moment) and separate cabling from the dish if you want to watch different channels on the sky box and the PC at the same time.

[Edit: I should add that this will only give access to free non-encrypted channels - not any of the subscription-only ones.]

Orville

fwor wrote: »

Yes - any DVB-S tuner card should do the job. Hauppauge are a good make, but I've no doubt there are cheaper ones:

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/101065

As you probably already know, you can't connect more than one satellite receiver to an LNB in the dish, so you would need a dual LNB (or quad LNB which actually seem cheaper than dual at the moment) and separate cabling from the dish if you want to watch different channels on the sky box and the PC at the same time.

Hi many thanks for your quick answer. Do you have any links to ones that will do the same job for half the price

fwor

http://www.google.co.uk/

wornoutmumoftwo

I have the hauppage td500 and have had no problems with it. think it was about £50/60 though, but as I record on it as I have no dvd recorder it is worth every penny. Got a cheaper version for my friend on ebay for £20 though.

[Deleted User]

Hi,

found this one half the price, have a read of the reviews.

Orville

[Deleted User] wrote:

Hi,

found this one half the price, have a read of the reviews.

Hi frug... I did look at that one but wasn't sure if it has a coax port....?

Orville

fwor wrote: »

http://www.google.co.uk/

Tried that hence my post on here....