You need a satellite dish and an LNB, pointed in the direction of
the satellite from which you want to receive the service. A good site
for satellite information is at www.lyngsat.com
For Australia and New Zealand services you may want to have a look
at www.apsattv.com which provides
a list of all Free To Air services available.
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You need to purchase the VP-DTV Sat-Ci PCI card, a Conditional Access
Module (CAM) and obtain a subscription card from the relevant Pay
TV operator (eg Optus Aurora, Canal Satellite, etc).
Please note that some PayTV operators will not sell you a subscription
smart card, by itself. They may provide you with a whole package that
includes a STB, smart card and satellite dish installation.
The best way to do that is if you have a TV that has a VGA
input, in which case you will connect your PC to the TV set. If your
TV does not have a VGA input, you can still do that if your video
card has video out (S-Video, Composite, Component, etc); simply connect
your video card video out, using the appropriate cable, to the TV
video in. The associated sound will be coming out of your PC's sound
card, so you need to connect that to your audio system or the TV audio
inputs.
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No, all DVB-s PCI cards are digital only receivers. Analog broadcasts,
whether via satellite or terrestrial can not be received.
Yes, video is recorded in MPEG2 format and virtually all DVD
players can be used for playback.
- For best performance it is advised that a PC with a minimum
CPU of 800Mhz should be used with these cards.
- Avoid having another BT8x8 chipset based PCI card on the same
PC, as this may cause hardware conflicts.
- Use the middle PCI slot on your motherboard, this tends to have
better bus mastering performance.
- If you are having problems with hardware installation, try a
different PCI slot, there could be an IRQ conflict with other
devices installed.
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