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<blockquote data-quote="Marcusb" data-source="post: 189616" data-attributes="member: 11550">as mrkaras has said, the best solution is to keep your austar box and feed the signal to the analog input of your tv card.As medaust has pointed out, be careul here as most cheaper analog inputs are software encoding, which means that the CPU has to do all the DA conversions.&nbsp; Even on fast systems, this can cause issues.&nbsp; The Huappauage PVR series has hardware encoding and seems to work quite well. they're also not too expensive, even in Australia.For the Digital card, I also recommend the digital now cards.&nbsp; They seem to have much stronger signal reception although they have software analog inputs, so they may not work too well with the austar box.You'll probably have to accept the fact that you'll need to cards. one for digital tv and one to accept the Austar box and the analog channels.Also, if you buy the MS remote for around AU$69 you will get two transmitter buds, which MP can use to control the austar box as well as the convenience of a good remote.Hope this helps, as congrats on the extra addition (the son, not the new htpc)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Marcusb, post: 189616, member: 11550"] as mrkaras has said, the best solution is to keep your austar box and feed the signal to the analog input of your tv card. As medaust has pointed out, be careul here as most cheaper analog inputs are software encoding, which means that the CPU has to do all the DA conversions. Even on fast systems, this can cause issues. The Huappauage PVR series has hardware encoding and seems to work quite well. they're also not too expensive, even in Australia. For the Digital card, I also recommend the digital now cards. They seem to have much stronger signal reception although they have software analog inputs, so they may not work too well with the austar box. You'll probably have to accept the fact that you'll need to cards. one for digital tv and one to accept the Austar box and the analog channels. Also, if you buy the MS remote for around AU$69 you will get two transmitter buds, which MP can use to control the austar box as well as the convenience of a good remote. Hope this helps, as congrats on the extra addition (the son, not the new htpc) [/QUOTE]

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