03-25-2004, 06:09 PM
Quote:Anyways, I really haven't found any satellite TV-ready PC-TV cards that don't require a connection to satellite TV set-top receiver box for use in the United States. Specifically, I haven't heard of any specific TV card that works directly to receive DirecTV or DISH satellite TV broadcasts without the satellite receiver set-top box -- the problem is that you need the decoder and I don't think DirecTV or DISH want to let PC users have direct access to a decoder on a PC. The best solution appears to be getting a regular TV Tuner card and simply hooking it up to a satellite receiver box where the box does the decoding.
Keep in mind that if you want satellite TV on your PC, then you can always hook up a satellite TV set-top receiver box to a regular PC-TV Tuner card. In that sense, just about any PC-TV Tuner card is "satellite TV ready" athough you will still need to hook up the external satellite TV receiver set-top box (which decodes the satellite signal) to the TV card on the PC in order to get the satellite TV reception, change to channel 3 or channel 4 (or switch to Video In, depending on your video connection), and use the remote control for your satellite box to change the channels.