With Freeview about to go live, I thought now is the time to build myself a wee HTPC.

I've just got a groovy dual sat tuner from Pinnacle, but it only lists the Optus B1 and B3 satellites. I think that the D1 is a direct replacement for B1 (60 degrees East) but then I read there is a polarization problem.

So I plug the card into my pc, link up the old Sky dish that was there when I bought the house and hit the Go button. Only two Optus satellites listed, and the auto scan only picks up radio off each one. No TV. Bu66er.

That's with 4.11 of the software (Pinnacle Media Centre), so I try the 4.7 supplied on CD and notice that I have signal strength of 20%. 20% of what, I don't know.

Any thoughts whether it's a satellite problem- I am looking at the wrong satellie, or a dish problem, it's pointing in the wrong direction and needs a tweak, or it's a card problem, and I need to harrangue the supplier???

Oh yeah, I've also tried the freeware MediaPortal which looks good but doesn't find my card. Sigh.

Thanks in advance!
Jon