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TV Tuner card that works with satellite?

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imported_cubby

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I am looking for a TV tuner that works with Direct TV. I have searched the forums and cannot find an answer. I don't know how possible this is, but I would like one to record sports like NFL games and what not. In the past the ones I have seen only go up to channel 100. Can you record non free to air programs with this like shows on HBO or sports? Is this possible yet? Any help would be great. Thanks!
 
Are you looking for something you can screw the dish directly into or something you can hook to a two pole dish and daisy chain to the TV2 outlet of a sat box?

A mere TV tuner card can not de-code a satelite signal, but if you're willing to hook a standard TV tuner up to a satelite box's output port, it'll work. But you have to use the satelite receiver to change channels and NOT the tuner.

That means your satellite service has to support this. For example: I had Dish Network. I could use any TV in the house that was tuned into channel 74 to pick up the signal from the satellite receiver. But I had to use the receiver to change channels.

My in laws have Direct TV. They have to have a receiver for each TV in the house. This would NOT work unless you kept a receiver hooked up to your PC at all times.
 
Thanks for the reply. I want something that will plug from the TV Tuner Card to the D TV reciever, but that picks up anything not just channel 0-100. I had one for cable once, but I heard they didnt work with satellite. I probably am not explaining it as clearly as I need to be cause I am a noob in the TV Tuner area. I just want somethign so I can tape sports games like football, baseball or basketball that are on the D TV packages, not just on local channels. Thanks again!
 
Without a DirecTV receiver that's not going to happen. There are satellite tuner cards available but they are typically for C Band setups. The receiver will allow you to record any channel that you receive via DirecTV but you have to change the channels on the receiver in order to record them, it will work for any channel that DirecTV broadcasts to you.
 
Originally posted by: cubby
Thanks for the reply. I want something that will plug from the TV Tuner Card to the D TV reciever, but that picks up anything not just channel 0-100. I had one for cable once, but I heard they didnt work with satellite. I probably am not explaining it as clearly as I need to be cause I am a noob in the TV Tuner area. I just want somethign so I can tape sports games like football, baseball or basketball that are on the D TV packages, not just on local channels. Thanks again!
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Yeah. You don't have to worry about what channel the game is on because you're not going to set the channel on the tuner card. The tuner card is going to be set to something like "74" and you change the channels on the DTV receiver.

 
Ya all you do is hook up the dtv recieved to your composite or svideo connection and select that input on the computer. Then you change the channel with the remote for the reciever.
 
also, with my directv receiver I can schedule it to tune to a certain channel at a certain time, once or weekly - so I set my computer to record the composite input at the same time that I have my directv receiver set to switch to the desired channel. I had the same problem back when I had digital cable and wanted to record non-basic channels, but my digital cable box didn't have a scheduler function.
 
Tuning to ch 3 or 74 is also the LOWEST quality connection you can make, plain composite video is next, Svideo better, maybe analog component, with pure HDMI style digital the best.

Paid channels are not leaving the Sat box unless you paid for them.

There is the Cable Card stuff, but that is just past my tech level. They allow tuning in a cable system of the QUAM digital channels, but still no free premium channels.
 
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