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Posted By: mixo HTPC (home theatre) - Sat 08 Oct 2005 05:19:PM
Hello all,<br /><br />Get all the bits ready for building a home theatre. the only problems is the SAT CARD!.<br />Has anyone built a HTPC with a sat card that has bda drivers?????<br /><br />Anyone recomend a sat card with these drivers?.<br /><br />I was looking at the twihan one as this does everything but not sure if it has bda drivers.<br /><br />thanks for the help!<br /><br />mixo<br /><br />P.s i have heard the MS doesnt support sat cards in their MCE 2005 version, is this true?
Posted By: mr_mixer Re: HTPC (home theatre) - Sun 09 Oct 2005 12:33:AM
I` ve got Twinhan sat card.4 fix dish one 2.4 mesh moving dish runing ok.<br />XP Pro oper system.Never had driver problem.<br /><br />http://www.twinhan.com/product_satellite_5.asp<br />check this link .<br />System Requirements and all there.<br /><br />OFF TOPIC...<br />Sky Star2 is good too...
Posted By: LAZER Re: HTPC (home theatre) - Sun 09 Oct 2005 01:25:AM
Yeh i got a SkyStar2 Card works good <img border="0" title="" alt="[Smile]" src="images/icons/default/smile.gif" /> But not sure about the BDA Drivers? <img border="0" title="" alt="[Confused]" src="images/icons/default/confused.gif" />
Posted By: mixo Re: HTPC (home theatre) - Sun 09 Oct 2005 05:58:PM
thanks guys, i was thinking of buying that card but without the module.<br /><br />Hopefully will get most of the parts next week and we will see how it goes...<br /><br />mixo
Posted By: jonc Re: HTPC (home theatre) - Sat 12 Nov 2005 06:40:AM
</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">Originally posted by mr_mixer:<br /><strong> I` ve got Twinhan sat card.4 fix dish one 2.4 mesh moving dish runing ok.<br />XP Pro oper system.Never had driver problem.<br /><br /> http://www.twinhan.com/product_satellite_5.asp <br />check this link .<br />System Requirements and all there.<br /><br />OFF TOPIC...<br />Sky Star2 is good too... </strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">If you are doing it on a wintel box (PC) the twinhan drivers are there in most applications except for XP Media Center (rats) <br /><br />If you are going some version/flavour of linux go for the SS2 as it has more out of the box drivers by far (try Gentoo *nix it is fun)<br /><br />Good luck<br /><br />*EDIT : an after thought: I just brought Nero Ultra 7 for my DVD burning for one of the Dels here, and it comes with a my home theatre app that is just off the wall, so if you do have a PC see a mate who has it and have a gekco at it.
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