<div dir="ltr">I have a a couple of dvb-s pci cards already and a usb dvb-t that I was using, just moved house and the roof only has a sky dish so I was thinking a cheap dvb-s usb would be the easier option, really only getting setup for the Olympics, It may just work out better to pay for a month of fanpass anyway <br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 24 April 2016 at 18:44, Stephen Worthington <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:stephen_agent@jsw.gen.nz" target="_blank">stephen_agent@jsw.gen.nz</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">On Sun, 24 Apr 2016 17:31:25 +1200, you wrote:<br>
<br>
>On 23/04/16 20:33, Jason Taylor wrote:<br>
>> Anybody know where to find a dvb-s usb tuner?<br>
><br>
>I think I have 2 external usb dvb-s tuners i'm not using right now which I<br>
>found on trade second hand a while ago.<br>
><br>
>These units have linux support and the only issue I know about them is that<br>
>they can get quite warm and they are passively cooled. Locating then<br>
>somewhere with some air flow is important or they will cause problems on<br>
>hit summer days.<br>
><br>
>One of them was missing a power supply but if I give it to you i'm sure a<br>
>power supply wouldn't be hard to source.<br>
><br>
>I also have a Hauppauge pci express card that does dvb-t/s/s2/c and has<br>
>linux support. These cards are I think more reliable than usb ones. Only<br>
>downside with this card is I think it may be single tuner so even though<br>
>dvb-t shows as separate to dvb-s only one will work at a time I think.<br>
>Haven't tested this yet though.<br>
><br>
>For recording freeview sat signal you only need a dvb-s tuner but dvb-s2<br>
>ones should be backwards compatible. If you somehow manged to record sky<br>
>then a dvb-s tuner is all you need for all channels bar the few duplicated<br>
>hd channels but at some point soon they will be migrating to all dvb-s2. I<br>
>can't see freeview changing any time soon though.<br>
<br>
</div></div>You probably want a DVB-S2 tuner now for Prime, which is available in<br>
HD from Sky. I am not sure if it is unencrypted like the other<br>
channels Sky shares with Freeview. I intend to find out when I have<br>
some spare time to tune it in and find out.<br>
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