Cature card for digital tv

[sean]

I saw one back a few months ago that allowed you to put a card in and it
would pick up foxtel/austar (with the normal foxtel/austar card) anyone know
what the name of it is?

[kubalister]

There are numerous DVB-S PC sat cards available that have CI slots for
use with Irdeto CAMs.

The 2 most common models for PCs are the 2 Hauppauge models and the
Twinhan Sat-CI card. From experience I can only recommend the Hauppauge
Nexus rather than the Twinhan.

These cards will work fine with a valid Austar card or old red Foxtel
sat card and Irdeto CAM, but not the current blue Foxtel sat card which
no longer uses Irdeto encryption.

sean wrote:
> I saw one back a few months ago that allowed you to put a card in and it
> would pick up foxtel/austar (with the normal foxtel/austar card) anyone know
> what the name of it is?
>
>

[Ozviewer]

I saw one back a few months ago that allowed you to put a card in and it
would pick up foxtel/austar (with the normal foxtel/austar card) anyone know
what the name of it is?

Not sure if this is what you meant, but if you are connecting your foxtel STU to a HTPC, this card (http://www.iln.com.au/?page=pv258t&cat=specs) works great for me.

[kubalister]

Ozviewer wrote:
> sean Wrote:
>
>>I saw one back a few months ago that allowed you to put a card in and
>>it
>>would pick up foxtel/austar (with the normal foxtel/austar card) anyone
>>know
>>what the name of it is?
>
>
> Not sure if this is what you meant, but if you are connecting your
> foxtel STU to a HTPC, 'this card'
> (http://www.iln.com.au/?page=pv258t&cat=specs) works great for me.
>

That card is just an analog TV card with an mpeg encoder for external
analog signals. The original post was asking for a digital decoding card
that uses the original subscriber card to decode signals like the
Hauppauge Nexus sat card. Re-encoding the Foxtel analog output from the
STU into mpeg2 format produces significantly inferior image quality over
decoding the DVB data stream directly.