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<blockquote data-quote="charaldan" data-source="post: 918966" data-attributes="member: 131028">Thank you - all you guys. I managed to get my epg populated fully last night and the threads you pointed me at gave a wealth of useful info and tips. Now having got my tbs6981 dual sat tuner up and running it has given me the confidence to start again - I've realised that a dual tuner card will not be man enough for the job I want!. I only have one pci-e slot on my mobo - (mini atx) so I have gone for a quad tuner HD DVB-T (could have had quad sat tuner but then would have had all all the hassle of running extra two cables from my lnb - whereas I already have high gain antenna feed sitting there doing nothing which can feed all four DVB-T tuners by itself and provide a feed thru to the freeview tuner included on the tv). In order to have at least one DVB-S2 feed I have ordered a Qbox S2 USB tuner to plug in via a usb port - then will have 5 tuners in total . I am presuming when I have all this installed I do the scan on the DVB-T tuners then on the DVB-S tuner then merge DVBS to DVBT as suggested in your threads . I also like the idea of using the sky features such as described using Miroslav's modded 1.3 Alpha version of MP.&nbsp;I'm going for as high spec as possible because I want this to be a server machine that eventually can stream programming all over the house. I have 5 machines (inc this one) all running Win7 Ult and all networked via ethernet links and Win7 Homegroup. Is this possible to do via Media Portal/Win 7?&nbsp;Once again thanks - who knows when I've done all this I might write a &quot;for dummies&quot; guide to setting up your satellite card as I'd assumed (wrongly) that once I'd installed the card it would be pretty much plug and play as regards the EPG etc. If I do I'll post links to it on this thread so it can be found.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="charaldan, post: 918966, member: 131028"] Thank you - all you guys. I managed to get my epg populated fully last night and the threads you pointed me at gave a wealth of useful info and tips. Now having got my tbs6981 dual sat tuner up and running it has given me the confidence to start again - I've realised that a dual tuner card will not be man enough for the job I want!. I only have one pci-e slot on my mobo - (mini atx) so I have gone for a quad tuner HD DVB-T (could have had quad sat tuner but then would have had all all the hassle of running extra two cables from my lnb - whereas I already have high gain antenna feed sitting there doing nothing which can feed all four DVB-T tuners by itself and provide a feed thru to the freeview tuner included on the tv). In order to have at least one DVB-S2 feed I have ordered a Qbox S2 USB tuner to plug in via a usb port - then will have 5 tuners in total . I am presuming when I have all this installed I do the scan on the DVB-T tuners then on the DVB-S tuner then merge DVBS to DVBT as suggested in your threads . I also like the idea of using the sky features such as described using Miroslav's modded 1.3 Alpha version of MP. I'm going for as high spec as possible because I want this to be a server machine that eventually can stream programming all over the house. I have 5 machines (inc this one) all running Win7 Ult and all networked via ethernet links and Win7 Homegroup. Is this possible to do via Media Portal/Win 7? Once again thanks - who knows when I've done all this I might write a "for dummies" guide to setting up your satellite card as I'd assumed (wrongly) that once I'd installed the card it would be pretty much plug and play as regards the EPG etc. If I do I'll post links to it on this thread so it can be found. [/QUOTE]

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