gunark
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Hello,
I'm about to bump Sky HD off and I'm looking into DVB-S2 cards. I've previously used XPMC with DVB-S (horrid) and VMC with DVB-T (better but inconsistent) so I've served my time at the coalface of MS's media solutions - spare me no truths! Basically, I want to receive Freesat HD on my Win 7 box and pump that out to my TV. In addition I want to put a 360 in the bedroom as an extender for said 7MC so I can view tuner channels (HD & SD) and the recorded video. I don't wish to use it for blu-ray and all my HD MKVs I watch thru a WDTV or PS3 Media Centre'd to my PS3 (which the same box does too). So my questions are:
1) I have an Athlon 64 X2 3800+ chip with a Gigabyte board sporting Radeon HD2100 graphics. Do I need to up the CPU and / or install a dedicated card to handle HD transport streams? A faster CPU would be nice for transcoding I guess but it's fine for that for now. The board can take Phenoms up to AM3.
2) What is the best / cheapest 1 tuner card and 2 tuner card? DVB-T not needed.
3) If I want to stream the HD channels to the 360, will N or even G wireless cope or do I have to go the 200mbps Homeplug route?
4) Has this got any easier than the XP days of hacked drivers, flakey cards and general stress?!
5) Would the 7MC experience be as good as Sky HD (new EPG)? Pause / series linking / recording, etc and most importantly - does it pass the WIFE test?
Thanks in advance!
I'm about to bump Sky HD off and I'm looking into DVB-S2 cards. I've previously used XPMC with DVB-S (horrid) and VMC with DVB-T (better but inconsistent) so I've served my time at the coalface of MS's media solutions - spare me no truths! Basically, I want to receive Freesat HD on my Win 7 box and pump that out to my TV. In addition I want to put a 360 in the bedroom as an extender for said 7MC so I can view tuner channels (HD & SD) and the recorded video. I don't wish to use it for blu-ray and all my HD MKVs I watch thru a WDTV or PS3 Media Centre'd to my PS3 (which the same box does too). So my questions are:
1) I have an Athlon 64 X2 3800+ chip with a Gigabyte board sporting Radeon HD2100 graphics. Do I need to up the CPU and / or install a dedicated card to handle HD transport streams? A faster CPU would be nice for transcoding I guess but it's fine for that for now. The board can take Phenoms up to AM3.
2) What is the best / cheapest 1 tuner card and 2 tuner card? DVB-T not needed.
3) If I want to stream the HD channels to the 360, will N or even G wireless cope or do I have to go the 200mbps Homeplug route?
4) Has this got any easier than the XP days of hacked drivers, flakey cards and general stress?!
5) Would the 7MC experience be as good as Sky HD (new EPG)? Pause / series linking / recording, etc and most importantly - does it pass the WIFE test?
Thanks in advance!