So I’m thinking of switching from Comcast cable to satellite, either Dish or DTV. My system specs are:
MSI K9N Platinum Socket AM2 Nvidia nForce 570 Ultra MCP
AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+ (65W) Windsor 2.0GHz
ARCTIC COOLING Freezer 64 Pro
MSI NX7600GT-VT2D256E HD GeForce 7600GT PCIe w/ Arctic Cooling AVC-NV6 rev. 2 VGA cooler
CORSAIR XMS2 1GB (2 x 512MB) 240-Pin DDR2 800
Uneed X11 rev. 1 case w/ VFD&IR & rev. 2 HD cage
Seasonic S12 380W PS
Mitsumi floppy w/ USB 2.0 card reader built in
Seagate 160GB (OS/docs) IDE hard drive w/ Rosewill IDE to SATA mini bridge
Seagate 300GB (videos) IDE hard drive w/ Rosewill IDE to SATA mini bridge
Seagate 320GB (videos) SATA hard drive
NEC N3500A DVD Burner (reflashed to be region free)
PVR-500 MCE, DVICO FusionHDTV Lite, and Vbox Cat’s Eye 150 pci tuner cards
I’m running XP Pro w/ SP2 and SageTV version 6.2. I’ve got nvidia 91.47 drivers, and purevideo decoder 1.02-223. I’m watching this via a Westinghouse 32″ LCD via DVI, with the sound going via SPDIF optical to a Pioneer receiver.
I’ve got comcast going to the PVR-500, and OTA HD to the FusionHDTV and Vbox 150.
I’ve got a Saberview 2020 that I may try out to see if the picture is better than the PVR-500 over RF, and also picked up a Aver M780 to have 3 SD and 3 HD tuners.
My question is what changes would I need to get Satellite SD and HD content?
Thanks,
Mike
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