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<blockquote data-quote="jquin" data-source="post: 710704" data-attributes="member: 358198">I am currently building an HTPC and yesterday I installed a TBS DVB-S2 card. I'm afraid I'm totally new to satellite. It did a full scan and found all the channels. The normal channels worked fine (showing quality between 50% and 90%) but BBC HD was very blocky and digitised. I was wondering if someone could direct me to what is most likely to be causing this:1) The satellite dish was installed by SKY by the previous occupants of our house about 5 years ago. Could this dish have moved or be of too low quality for HD or are there any potential cable issues? I don't have a SKY subscription and was planning to just watch Freesat so would prefer not to have to get SKY round.2) I was just testing it last night with a normal PC monitor via VGA - I presume no issues there3) Is the Radeon HD 2600 512MB up to the job?4) There are loads of settings - anything I can try tweaking?5) I chose Astra 28.2 but I'm pretty sure that's right6) Other people report getting good HD from the TBS card so I'm presuming it's not that.7) As soon as I powered on the PC it said it had installed drivers but I then tried the CD and it looked like it installed drivers. I could try updating drivers?Any other suggestions? Thanks in advance...</blockquote>

[QUOTE="jquin, post: 710704, member: 358198"] I am currently building an HTPC and yesterday I installed a TBS DVB-S2 card. I'm afraid I'm totally new to satellite. It did a full scan and found all the channels. The normal channels worked fine (showing quality between 50% and 90%) but BBC HD was very blocky and digitised. I was wondering if someone could direct me to what is most likely to be causing this: 1) The satellite dish was installed by SKY by the previous occupants of our house about 5 years ago. Could this dish have moved or be of too low quality for HD or are there any potential cable issues? I don't have a SKY subscription and was planning to just watch Freesat so would prefer not to have to get SKY round. 2) I was just testing it last night with a normal PC monitor via VGA - I presume no issues there 3) Is the Radeon HD 2600 512MB up to the job? 4) There are loads of settings - anything I can try tweaking? 5) I chose Astra 28.2 but I'm pretty sure that's right 6) Other people report getting good HD from the TBS card so I'm presuming it's not that. 7) As soon as I powered on the PC it said it had installed drivers but I then tried the CD and it looked like it installed drivers. I could try updating drivers? Any other suggestions? Thanks in advance... [/QUOTE]

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