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I'm finally going to get a tuner card for my living room PC to make it a proper HTPC.
I am getting the Gigabyte GA-MA78GM-S2H which gives me HD out, but I was wondering about SD/HD in. From what I can understand you need a DVB-S2 compatible tuner card to decode FreeView and FreeSat HD channels.
I don't use HD at the moment - though I will at somepoint - but I do have a cable box which has all the channels under the sun and I would like to be able to record off them to watch at my leisure (Eurosport for example).
Also the fancy-pants rewind live TV could be good to show off, but not strictly necessary.
So my questions are:
I am getting the Gigabyte GA-MA78GM-S2H which gives me HD out, but I was wondering about SD/HD in. From what I can understand you need a DVB-S2 compatible tuner card to decode FreeView and FreeSat HD channels.
I don't use HD at the moment - though I will at somepoint - but I do have a cable box which has all the channels under the sun and I would like to be able to record off them to watch at my leisure (Eurosport for example).
Also the fancy-pants rewind live TV could be good to show off, but not strictly necessary.
So my questions are:
- What do you recommend for a tuner card? I have a budget of about £100.
- Should I get a remote or would a wireless keyboard (such as KeySonic ACK540RF) be better?
- If I start using my HTPC for TV-viewing, what software is there for tv schedules in the UK?
- I currently use MediaPortal (with a black interface) but what do others who lurk here use?