DVB-S2 pay-tv suggestions (1 Viewer)

Volture79

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March 24, 2010
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Hi Guys,

I'm new on this forum. Just started last month with my mediacenter build with Mediaportal. I'm very sattisfied with this combination and I'm thinking of expanding the functions of my MCE with TV viewing. At this moment I'm using a Dreambox DM7000s with a Visiosat dish voor reception of Astra 1, 2, 3 and Hotbird. The Dreambox DM7000s is a DVB-S receiver with a single tuner. Because I'm from the Netherlands, I have a subscribtion for Canal Digitaal that provides a SECA3 smartcard.
So, what I'm looking for is a perfect combination for a smooth HDTV viewing experience in MCE with the following criteria:

- Internal solution based on PCI or PCI-E
- 2 tuner DVB-S2 card for simultanius watching and recording TV
- onboard or external cardreader with support for SECA3.
- card which supports DisQuec 1.1 or higher.

I'm not the lazy type so I already looked around on the web for possible solutions. There are just 3 cards I found on the web that compty to my needs:
- TBS6980
- KNC One TV-Station DVB-S2 Twin (not available yet)
- Mystique SaTiX-S2 Dual DVB-S2 PCI-e 1x

All card lack the option of an on-card cardreader or CI-slot.

Does anybody use these cards? What's the card with the best picture quality? And what kind of cardreaders /CI-slots do you use in combination with any of the above DVB-S2 cards?
 

jarroz

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November 13, 2008
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Hi Volture79,

Recently my FireDTV S2 card's dided and i had the same question as you.

I found a Dualtuner card from Digital Devices and recently they shipped me the CI board.
This CI Board uses another PCIe slot and with ther driver software the Tuner and CI are connected.

I have very good results with MCE7 with this card, the TV Server of Media Portal is another story.

You can use the S2-card without CI with the TV-Server but once the CI is activated the TV-Server doesn't have any signal.

Since i have channel change times from SD to HD and HD to HD channels from less then half a second i very happy with the cards. Now it is waiting for TV-Server support.
 

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