Bartender - the UK guys have sorted the hardware CI/CAM using Dragon CAM (FireDTV), which works with UK NDS.   I haven't been willing to fork out the money for the gear until its guaranteed to work over here.  From my limited understanding the blue cards and 10 digit serial boxes may help, but you still need to spend alot of cash to be an expensive g/pig.

I believe the Hauppauge CI/CAM interface has been tried sucessfully in the UK also, which is USB and can support multiple cards in one PC but don't quote me on that.

eXDee - good luck with Media Portal - I set it up again the other day, wasted another 5 hours trying to get it working, but personally its way too much effort for me.  TV shouldn't be that hard.  There's a section in the DVBSBridge forums which detail how to get it to work - DVBSBridge simply sets it self up as a soft "tuner" card, so theres no reason why it shouldn't work, other than all the bugs in Media Portal - but thats a different story...

I did get GBPVR to work reasonably sucessfully - it had issues with channels with multi soundtracks, and still found channels which I don't subscibe to, but at least it was very easy to set up.  Channel changing was very slow though.

The thing with the MCE solution is that it only uses ProgDVB to pass the decrypted TS to MCE.  It also passes the EIT guide info ie 7 day guide.

It does this very quickly so using it in MCE is a pleasure ie fast channel changing.  The Steam Buffer Engine (or SBE2 if you use Fiji) still does all the video processing, which means that all of the overscan, black border issues that the other solutions all still suffer from disappear.