<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 5/14/08, <b class="gmail_sendername">Damian O'Sullivan</b> <<a href="mailto:shabba@skynet.ie">shabba@skynet.ie</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">I have a current Sky Digital set up using a pvr150 and svideo. I was<br>wondering what I had to do to access FreeSat. Obviously the dish is<br>
pointing the right direction but do I need a new LNB and cable or can I<br>split the current cable? What card would you recommend? I only have a<br>core2duo at 1.8Ghz at moment. Would this be enough or is there a card that<br>
can offload the burden for HD?<br><br>I have no problem playing HD samples at the moment.<br></blockquote></div>
<div>Depends on whether you want to keep the Sky box or not. If you replace the Sky - just feed the cable into a DVB-S card (I use the Techntrend S-1500). If you want to do Sky and Freesat, you'll need a dual-LNB with 2 cables coming down. Depending on your dish you might be able to install a new LNB, otherwise you'll need a new dish.<br>
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<div>I'm not sure the core2duo at 1.8G will be enough for the BBC HD - I struggle with a 2.1G core2duo. Have you specifically tried the BBC HD, or a generic HD sample. THe BBC format is much more taxing! There are somethings you can patch to make it work better though.</div>