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Satch: It's a pain in the arse to put together if you are not used to soldering electronics together like me. Just make sure you spend some time first sorting out all of the components like resistors etc, and count them off against the counts in the (albeit limited )instructions. A soldering iron is all I used (the kit even comes with enough solder) along with a pair of pliers and a philips head screw driver.
Try telling the Sky guy that you want a 45XX or new light blue card as a replacement, as you are trying to integrate it better into your HTPC. Tell him you've heard it changes channels faster to the benefit of your IR blaster or something like that. I don't think that these guys really care as much as we might think they do.
Let us know how you get on.
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Other thing was, will this work with any smartcard reader (eg: the infinity)?
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Asmodeus:Satch: It's a pain in the arse to put together if you are not used to soldering electronics together like me. Just make sure you spend some time first sorting out all of the components like resistors etc, and count them off against the counts in the (albeit limited )instructions. A soldering iron is all I used (the kit even comes with enough solder) along with a pair of pliers and a philips head screw driver.
Try telling the Sky guy that you want a 45XX or new light blue card as a replacement, as you are trying to integrate it better into your HTPC. Tell him you've heard it changes channels faster to the benefit of your IR blaster or something like that. I don't think that these guys really care as much as we might think they do.
Let us know how you get on.
Thanks for the info Satch.
I was thinking about saying something to do with my htpc but couldnt think what and didnt want him to think I was gona be reprogramming or anything dodgy (wouldnt know where to begin anyway). I suspect you're right about them not caring too much though.
One last little question(s).... :) With the TV pack installed with native DVB-S support for VMC, Do I still need to use one or both of DVB-S bridge and ProgDVB as per Rusty gonad's instructions? Other thing was, will this work with any smartcard reader (eg: the infinity)?
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RustyGonad: You still need DVBSBridge with the TV pack.
What DVBSBridge does is get ProgDVB to tune and decrypt the channels before passing them to MCE as a psuedo DVB-T channel. This means that MCE only needs to tune a display the channels.
What the TV Pack does is let you use the Over the Air guide, ie you don't need Bladerunner or anything else. It also deinterlaces and displays the channels alot better than the old version, which is especially important with some of the lower bit rate Sky channels.
It also lets you use multiple tuners ie 1 for Sky, 1 or more for Freeview, along with a single guide, however there are still some bugs which I haven't got my head around yet - some of these are a carryover from the Fiji beta.
I'll try to write up a dummies guide in the next few days if I can find some time.
and would be extremely appreciated!
RustyGonad: I'll try to write up a dummies guide in the next few days if I can find some time.
Asmodeus:RustyGonad: You still need DVBSBridge with the TV pack.
What DVBSBridge does is get ProgDVB to tune and decrypt the channels before passing them to MCE as a psuedo DVB-T channel.? This means that MCE only needs to tune a display the channels.
What the TV Pack does is let you use the Over the Air guide, ie you don't need Bladerunner or anything else.? It also deinterlaces and displays the channels alot better than the old version, which is especially important with some of the lower bit rate Sky channels.
It also lets you use multiple tuners ie 1 for Sky, 1 or more for Freeview, along with a single guide, however there are still some bugs which I haven't got my head around yet? - some of these are a carryover from the Fiji beta.
I'll try to write up a dummies guide in the next few days if I can find some time.
Great, thanks for that Rusty, still getting my head around alot of this but Im getting there. A dummies guide would be right up my alley
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