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<blockquote data-quote="synthdood" data-source="post: 489165" data-attributes="member: 47606">If you mean that your client wants to have satellite tv in 16 different rooms you don't need 16 tuners.A colleague of mine has just built a tv server with with 3 floppydtv DVB-S cards, 3 diseqs and a single dish with three quad output LNB's pointed at different satellites. With this setup he can watch/record from three different streams from any of the sattelites simultaneously anywhere in the house on an unlimited number of clients as. If you watch channels from the same stream on multiple locations, the same stream/tvcard is used and in practice you wil find that the most popular channels are combined on the same streams which means that often you will be using only one or two cards with several clients watching a different channel.Worst case, you would only need 16 tuners (and as many dishes/diseqs/LNBs/CAMs/smartcards) if you want to be able to watch 16 different programs all on different streams simultaneously. What kind of household does your client have? Or is he running a hotel maybe?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="synthdood, post: 489165, member: 47606"] If you mean that your client wants to have satellite tv in 16 different rooms you don't need 16 tuners. A colleague of mine has just built a tv server with with 3 floppydtv DVB-S cards, 3 diseqs and a single dish with three quad output LNB's pointed at different satellites. With this setup he can watch/record from three different streams from any of the sattelites simultaneously anywhere in the house on an unlimited number of clients as. If you watch channels from the same stream on multiple locations, the same stream/tvcard is used and in practice you wil find that the most popular channels are combined on the same streams which means that often you will be using only one or two cards with several clients watching a different channel. Worst case, you would only need 16 tuners (and as many dishes/diseqs/LNBs/CAMs/smartcards) if you want to be able to watch 16 different programs all on different streams simultaneously. What kind of household does your client have? Or is he running a hotel maybe? [/QUOTE]

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