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<blockquote data-quote="HTPCSourcer" data-source="post: 1123655" data-attributes="member: 74879">You need to be clear about a major difference between cable and SAT. The former has a bus-character, which means that you can draw one cable linearly from point to point and connect a TV anywhere in between. SAT requires a star-like connection: every receiver requires his own cable, drawn to a central distribution point. WHy is this? Well, every receiver switches the LNB between horizontal and vertical polarization plus changes the switching frequency between 22 and 27 kHz --&gt; this gives you four states per receiver. There cannot be different states at the same time one the same cable (well, except for Unicable installations, but that 's a different story,which requires additonal hardware), and that's the reason why a standard SAT installation has four cables.Now what do you mean by &quot;network-based tv-tuner&quot;? A MediaPortal TV-Server? If you want to watch TV with MePo clients only, all you would need is a MePo TV-Server PC, which houses the DVB-C cards. The dishes that you selected do only have Twin-LNB's - that means that for each channel you will be able to watch ONE channel and record ONE other channel only. If you had a Quad-LNB there would be no limitation (other than your PC tuner hardware limits).If your two Twin-LNBs will be connected to your MediaPortal server only, you will require two dual tuner DVB-C cards (or four single ones) to which you can directly connect the cables from the dishes. If, however, you would like to use the dish signals in parallel to MediaPortal, you will aditionally need the above-mentioned multiswitch to further distribute the signals.Clear as mud?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="HTPCSourcer, post: 1123655, member: 74879"] You need to be clear about a major difference between cable and SAT. The former has a bus-character, which means that you can draw one cable linearly from point to point and connect a TV anywhere in between. SAT requires a star-like connection: every receiver requires his [U]own[/U] cable, drawn to a central distribution point. WHy is this? Well, every receiver switches the LNB between horizontal and vertical polarization plus changes the switching frequency between 22 and 27 kHz --> this gives you four states per receiver. There cannot be different states at the same time one the same cable (well, except for Unicable installations, but that 's a different story,which requires additonal hardware), and that's the reason why a standard SAT installation has four cables. Now what do you mean by "network-based tv-tuner"? A MediaPortal TV-Server? If you want to watch TV with MePo clients only, all you would need is a MePo TV-Server PC, which houses the DVB-C cards. The dishes that you selected do only have Twin-LNB's - that means that for each channel you will be able to watch ONE channel and record ONE other channel only. If you had a Quad-LNB there would be no limitation (other than your PC tuner hardware limits). If your two Twin-LNBs will be connected to your MediaPortal server only, you will require two dual tuner DVB-C cards (or four single ones) to which you can directly connect the cables from the dishes. If, however, you would like to use the dish signals [B]in parallel[/B] to MediaPortal, you will aditionally need the above-mentioned multiswitch to further distribute the signals. Clear as mud? [/QUOTE]

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