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<blockquote data-quote="mdsflyer" data-source="post: 95153" data-attributes="member: 16262">Good old DSE! Interesting what effect the booster had. My TV reception was pretty awful and due to location (behind a hill) no booster was ever going to fix my problem. As I had an old SKY dish on the roof i got a skystar2 and i use it to watch TV1, TV2 and a couple of others (constantly changing just now as they change over from Optus B1 satellite to the Optus D1). They are on the same satellite as SKY but are not encrypted, its a much better quality picture than the Hauppauge in my opinion, smaller file size too at around 2GB an hour. There would be little point in you getting a DVB-S card just now if you already have good reception as I dont think you'd get any new channels off of Optus D1 (what your dish is currently pointing at) but this is likely to change with the launch of freeview. There are a number of satellites beaming to NZ, the lyngsat website shows Optus B3, C1, NSS5, Asia Sat4, PAS8, PAS2, AMC23 and NSS 5, the dish would have to be realigned to pick them up, but if you're a channel junkie then this would increase your options. i hope that gives you some food for thought.mdsflyer</blockquote>

[QUOTE="mdsflyer, post: 95153, member: 16262"] Good old DSE! Interesting what effect the booster had. My TV reception was pretty awful and due to location (behind a hill) no booster was ever going to fix my problem. As I had an old SKY dish on the roof i got a skystar2 and i use it to watch TV1, TV2 and a couple of others (constantly changing just now as they change over from Optus B1 satellite to the Optus D1). They are on the same satellite as SKY but are not encrypted, its a much better quality picture than the Hauppauge in my opinion, smaller file size too at around 2GB an hour. There would be little point in you getting a DVB-S card just now if you already have good reception as I dont think you'd get any new channels off of Optus D1 (what your dish is currently pointing at) but this is likely to change with the launch of freeview. There are a number of satellites beaming to NZ, the lyngsat website shows Optus B3, C1, NSS5, Asia Sat4, PAS8, PAS2, AMC23 and NSS 5, the dish would have to be realigned to pick them up, but if you're a channel junkie then this would increase your options. i hope that gives you some food for thought. mdsflyer [/QUOTE]

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