<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On 2/03/2009, at 9:24 AM, David Lowe wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">Just to pick up on the original post.. why are DVB-S cards becoming hard to get? Is it because of the shift to DVB-T & HD? I was going to build a second system for a family member - no Sky, no HD available, just Freeview (which IMHO is becoming quite good with lost of interesting things on the new channels).<br> <br>So all I need is a couple of SkyStars or Technotrend thingees. Are any second-hand ones on the list available?<br><br>-<br></blockquote><br></div><div>Going to wake this tread up again as I'm also looking for some cards.</div><div><br></div><div>Options at the moment for pure DVB-S appear to be</div><div><br></div><div>Hauppauge Nova S Plus</div><div>Technotrend S-1401</div><div><br></div><div>For hybrid I could look at the HVR 3000 or HVR 4000 units.</div><div><br></div><div>Any other options around as a lot of the cards on trademe appear to be quite generic.</div><div><br></div><div>Shame we can't get some of the older SkyStar cards as they were excellent.</div><div><br></div><div>Steve</div><br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Steven Ellis - Technical Director<br>OpenMedia Limited<br>email - <a href="mailto:steven@openmedia.co.nz">steven@openmedia.co.nz</a><br>website - <a href="http://www.openmedia.co.nz/">http://www.openmedia.co.nz</a><br></div></div></span> </div><br></body></html>