![]() ![]() Since moving house, my set-up consists of an 80cm dish with monoblock for 13☎/19.2☎, plus the ubiquitous zone 1 minidish on 28.2☎ left by the previous owners! The two dishes look like they overlap a little but I've not seen any signal degradation compared to when I've taken the minidish down, so it can stay as is as far as I'm concerned! ![]() ![]() As I have a French BIS Télévisions card for 13☎, I also bought an Argolis Smargo USB card reader. I ended up building a modest PC, Intel i3 processor, micro ATX motherboard (I would have gone smaller even but I needed more than 1 PCI-E slot for tuner cards as well as graphics), a DVBSky dual tuner DVB-S2 PCI-E card, and an nVidia GT630 graphics card (decent enough spec to handle full hardware decode of MPEG4 1080i50 with the best hardware supported deinterlacing and scaling methods). ![]() This worked out pretty decently, and made me want to see if I could get all my satellite stuff on a similar set-up. My first dip into this was to set up an old mini PC I had lying around as a Freeview HD box with XBMC, TVHeadend and a PCTV Nano 290e USB DVB-T2 stick. I looked into Kodi Media Centre (XBMC as was), and found out about the support for live TV via software like TVHeadend. A lot of decent boxes exist but they're just not pleasant for watching and recording TV. I decided last year to move away from Enigma boxes, as I've always been slightly dissatisfied with the user experience on them. ![]()
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