Newbie Freesat question (2 Viewers)

[porky996t]

Hi Harry,

You can see my system spec by clicking on 'system' below the country flag under my avatar image. I cannot remember straight off; it is a Gigabyte mobo and a AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000 processor.

As Mew says there could be a bandwidth issue, I don't know as I never went down the adaptor route. If I were to need more PCIe slots, I think I would try for a different motherboard just to be sure.

I got the mobo 2nd hand off eBay and wasn't too sure what I was really looking for. I got it as it had a built in graphics, but this was eventually lacking in performance so I got a better graphics to get smooth playback on full HD. I didn't look too much at the PCI/e slots - it just didn't occur to me. I must admit I didn't really know all the possibilities of MP prior to setting it up, so I felt I really took a punt when I shelled out for the kit. I have to say that I'm really pleased that I did, and have been using it as the main living room TV system for two years now. Any difficulties I have had have been answered on this forum and I'm grateful to all who contribute as my set up stable and works really well.

 

[robbo100]

If I understand your first post correctly, you need a dual tuner DVB-S card that fits a PCI slot?

Just for clarity, incase this has been missed, you will need a dual tuner DVB-S2 card (not DVB-S) to get UK Freesat BBC HD and BBC One HD, since both these channels were ported from DVB-S to DVB-S2 a couple of months ago.

In fact, the only HD channel still available on DVB-S is ITV HD, all the rest are S2.

S2 cards are much more expensive than S cards, but clearly worth it if you want HD channels. The other route might be to use DVB-T2 in the UK (through your ariel "FreeView HD"), but these cards are new and probably even more expensive to buy.

Robbo100

 

[Harry Cadders]

Thanks everyone that has been very helpful.