DVB PCICards with Pansat capabilities

[cgc4]

I did not see a forum supporting pci FTA cards hopefully this is an not to off topic. I would like to use a computer as a dvr and a pci card to tune 110 and 119. I would like to find a card, which has the capability to use the fixes that are available. Any suggestions on the best cards would be greatly appreciated. If there is a method or software allowing the use pansat 2500 controlled via computer that would also work just fine also.
TIA cgc4

[d_o_geezer]

Pretty much any PCI DVB card will do what you want. Which one to buy is another question altogether. If you have a slower computer, you might want the Nexus-s, it has a processor on-board so it doesn't use your processor, works well with slower computer, but is rather pricey. The TwinHan is a less expensive card, no processor on board, so you need pretty fast computer (most people recommend minimum of 1ghz). I use the TwinHan and I recommend it.
The big difference in the Pansat or any other FTA STB, and the DVB card is the length of time it is down waiting for a fix . The first time it went down with the parity key change, I was down for about 3 hours. This time I was back up in 10 minutes..

[Lucas]

Where do you get your files?
Thanks,Lucas

[Wags]

I am running a Twinhan 1020a with a pIII 1ghz machine, 256MB Ram, 64MB Geforce4 vid card, and it runs perfectly

I tried it with a 550 Xeon with 512 ram and same vid and it didn't run that well...so if you have a machine 1GHZ or better I would say save the dough and buy Twinhan

I am only currently using it with BEV and am yet to go down in 6 weeks

I highly recommend this type of setup as it is far more reliable than alot of FTA recievers out there...the dvr is also a plus