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I have Sky plus and a digital tuner by Hauppauge so had to install a Quad LNB on the dish, everything works fine. LUXE HD is a bit boring though and BBC HD looks like sd.
Tue Jan 05, 2010 1:41 pm
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didgeman wrote:
I've been looking for a reasonably priced 7010iX for a while but they are hens teeth. I wish I had been on the ball when they could be had on ebay UK for less than £30 ..
Unfortunately shipping from germany is another 23 euros and the last time I bought from ebay germany I had to send the card back as it was faulty .. ended up costing far more than a brand new card bought in the UK ...

Still very tempting though ..

Didge


It's still cheaper than the £80 the UK seller wants... and he bought a load from the german seller to sell in the UK anyway.

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finlay666 wrote:
didgeman wrote:
I've been looking for a reasonably priced 7010iX for a while but they are hens teeth. I wish I had been on the ball when they could be had on ebay UK for less than £30 ..
Unfortunately shipping from germany is another 23 euros and the last time I bought from ebay germany I had to send the card back as it was faulty .. ended up costing far more than a brand new card bought in the UK ...

Still very tempting though ..

Didge


It's still cheaper than the £80 the UK seller wants... and he bought a load from the german seller to sell in the UK anyway.


I know, that's the problem .. unfortunately spent a stack over xmas ..

didge

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So this Pinnacle thing, does it do HD?

Is there no difference with PCI cards these days? Is it not like with a "set-top-box" where you get SD ones and HD ones?
Tue Jan 05, 2010 3:20 pm
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So this Pinnacle thing, does it do HD?

Is there no difference with PCI cards these days? Is it not like with a "set-top-box" where you get SD ones and HD ones?


As your PC does the decoding SD or HD depends on what codecs & processing power you have.

With set-top boxes the HD ones are more powerful so cost more.

The Pinnacle one should do HD fine.

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It will 'do' HD over satellite . dvb-s. Currently only BBC-HD and an iffy ITV-HD.
It will not 'do' the recently announced dvb-t HD (through aerial).

edit -- correct me if i am wrong sas but i believe this to be correct --

HTH

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didgeman wrote:
It will 'do' HD over satellite . dvb-s. Currently only BBC-HD and an iffy ITV-HD.
It will not 'do' the recently announced dvb-t HD (through aerial).

edit -- correct me if i am wrong sas but i believe this to be correct --

HTH

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You are correct, DVB-T2HD is aerial not satellite

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