Ok, stupid question. It's like saying which is the best vehicle, clearly the answer would be different if you're moving house, than it would be if you were cruising southend trying to impress the local Essex girls

So, maybe the question should be which is better for me. Currently I have 2 media centres in 2 rooms, both running freeView. The one in the living room is coupled to a highdef projector and I have a blueray drive in the media centre (media Portal on this one), so I know HD stuff looks really good on this setup.

I don't like sky. I buy DVD/BlueRays, so the movie channels are of no use to me, I get everything I want to see from freeview. But would really like to get some HD TV, which brings me to FreeSat.

I suspect a dedicated FreeSat Receiver box (Humax?) would be easier to set up and get working, but think I'd get more options by adding a DBV S2 card to my media centre. I'll prolly keep media Portal on that box, but know Linux quite well, so could use MythTV if anyone recommends it?

Advise/suggestions most welcome.

Thanks

Jim

[Stiggy]

I have a Bush freesat HD box which I never use, and a Hauppauge Nova-HD-S2 card in my Vista Media Center PC which I use all the time!

Go for the PC option.

Nova-HD-S2 - Do you like this card? I was looking at one (can't remember which) that claimed to be the only card that handled wake up for recording and then putting the PC back into standby after. Not sure how useful that would be to me, as I never turn my media centres off.

How do you get on with Vista? I use Vista on one media centre and Media Portal on another. I use media Portal purely because for some reason (and I really don't have a scoob why), the second PC won't download the EPG properly!

How did you integrtate HD into Vista. I read somewhere that it makes a pigs ear of the EPG, if you try to mix Freeview and FreeSat EPGs, are you doing this? This is the main reason why I am thinking of adding the Sat stuff to the MEWdia Portal box, as I think it handles it better, although I have to say, Media Portal (for me at least), has been nowhere near as stable or robust as Vista MCE.

J

[meansizzler]

I have the Technotrend DVB-S2 Card, and to be honest, only works well with DVB Viewer but I get frame drop while live viewing HDTVeven though recordingsplay back fine, and DVB VIewer has a Poor EPG so went out and got the Humax HDR, not tried it yet though...