I have bought this tuner card to allow me to watch Freeview on my PC with Windows 7 MC. I have an unused Sky dish on the roof that was already there when I moved in, and there are two cables coming out of the wall connected to it.
I have just installed the card and plugged the satellite cable into it. The drivers all installed fine and it looked like it was going to work - but both Media Center and the bundled WinTV software are unable to detect any channels, or get any signal from the dish at all.
Can the dish simply be plugged straight into the tuner without requiring any set-top-box? I definitely thought it could be, but I've just saw something on the web saying to connect a tuner to the output of an STB, and connect the STB to the dish. I can't believe that an STB would be required when the card already is a decoder.
Can someone please help me? I really am frustrated and confused right now, as it didn't mention I needed anything else on the box or the manual.