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<blockquote data-quote="CriticalMass" data-source="post: 736265" data-attributes="member: 365901">Thanks for your reply hexah - I'll do as you suggest Just to let you know:I went for the TBS 6981, but got it for £74 from BizTek on Amazon _www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0038LU03K/?tag=p--21 The picture of the box shows the 6980, which is supposed to be £74 &amp; elsewhere, the 6981 is £169; I'd heard they were delivering the 6980 though, so took a chance and just received it today and it has '69811 actually on the card PCB so it's not a con; can't recommend you take the chance too, since, if you go to the _http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/browse.html?ie=UTF8&amp;marketplaceID=A1F83G8C2ARO7P&amp;me=A2GQI2TM3GLHN9, they say they have 4 of these in stock both before I ordered &amp; after I received, so don't know if it's a mistake or what; I can only tell you what I gotThe TBS 6981 is a low profile, PCIe, dual tuner for satellite reception of TV\Data; comes with a basic Remote, 'Magic Eye' type device (I believe it's called?) to pick up the Remote signal from the front of the PC. Comes with some of the free Software, such as TBSViewer, ProgDVB, DVBLinkTVSourceTBS, DVBDreamI have yet to see whether it's any good of course; still need to put up the dish...I got a 50cm Freesat package from _www.aerialshack.com/freesat-dish-installation-p-1378.html with a quad LNB, which I'll put up over the weekend ... which I'm looking forward to!Next up; The _www.richersounds.com/product/lcd-tv/sony/kdl37ex401/sony-kdl37ex401 from Richer Sounds, round the corner from me (once I've translated the Paypal money back into Cash, which the want, so end of next week sometime - seems a bloody good deal to me, for only £350!After that, a Sound card, perhaps, so long as my E8400 can handle all this and I don't need a new CPUThanks very much for your help &amp; advice chaps - I'll let you know how it all works, once I'm up &amp; runningNickUnparsed three URL's - [Admin]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="CriticalMass, post: 736265, member: 365901"] Thanks for your reply hexah - I'll do as you suggest Just to let you know: I went for the TBS 6981, but got it for £74 from BizTek on Amazon _www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0038LU03K/?tag=p--21 The picture of the box shows the 6980, which is supposed to be £74 & elsewhere, the 6981 is £169; I'd heard they were delivering the 6980 though, so took a chance and just received it today and it has '69811 actually on the card PCB so it's not a con; can't recommend you take the chance too, since, if you go to the _http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/browse.html?ie=UTF8&marketplaceID=A1F83G8C2ARO7P&me=A2GQI2TM3GLHN9, they say they have 4 of these in stock both before I ordered & after I received, so don't know if it's a mistake or what; I can only tell you what I got The TBS 6981 is a low profile, PCIe, dual tuner for satellite reception of TV\Data; comes with a basic Remote, 'Magic Eye' type device (I believe it's called?) to pick up the Remote signal from the front of the PC. Comes with some of the free Software, such as TBSViewer, ProgDVB, DVBLinkTVSourceTBS, DVBDream I have yet to see whether it's any good of course; still need to put up the dish... I got a 50cm Freesat package from _www.aerialshack.com/freesat-dish-installation-p-1378.html with a quad LNB, which I'll put up over the weekend ... which I'm looking forward to! Next up; The _www.richersounds.com/product/lcd-tv/sony/kdl37ex401/sony-kdl37ex401 from Richer Sounds, round the corner from me (once I've translated the Paypal money back into Cash, which the want, so end of next week sometime - seems a bloody good deal to me, for only £350! After that, a Sound card, perhaps, so long as my E8400 can handle all this and I don't need a new CPU Thanks very much for your help & advice chaps - I'll let you know how it all works, once I'm up & running Nick [B][COLOR="red"]Unparsed three URL's - [Admin][/COLOR][/B] [/QUOTE]

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