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Message: <blockquote data-quote="s*t*a*r*m*a*n" data-source="post: 6261" data-attributes="member: 175004">Hi, You seem happy enough to go for the WinTv DVB card. If i was buying a card again "i have a penta media", then i would make sure the card i would go for was compatible with the multidec emulator so as i do not need to buy several cams which would save me a few hundred and have the potential to broaden my tv viewing if you know what i mean <img src="https://www.satellites.co.uk/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/smile.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)" data-shortname=":)" />  A cam is required if your card has an addon for receiving pay channels and not just free to air. The viewing cardslots into it. They are all about £80 and upwards each and each cam is required to decrypt the encryption system along with a valid or unofficial viewing card. With a PC card fitted you can watch tv on your pc and then feed the signal down with some digital cable from the room upstairs into the back of your tv/video, there are several ways of doing this ofcourse, the way i do it is by taking the output connector from my card into my scart video sitting next to it then feeding the wire down behind the tv then just plugging the aerial in to the downstairs tv when i want to watch it downstairs. I can ofcourse also watch it upstairs at the same time but only the same channel. "To watch 2 channels at once would require 2 receivers". I just watch 1 channel at a time so if your wife wanted to watch something else on another channel on the same satellite then yes i suppose you could also buy a sat receiver standalone model then share the cable from the one dish and feed it into both receivers but it would be a bit expensive i think?? (2 receivers? for the occasional tv viewing by your wife?) anyone disagree? and if your wife wanted to watch something on another satellite then you would need to either go motorised or use a bracket and fit 2 lbms to the one dish pointing to both satellites and use a diseque switch to choose between them or so i believe. It all soon adds up. Standalone receivers are easier i guess and more convenient that pc based systems as pcs can and often do go into unexplained fits of "im not going to work for you today you tos**r <img src="https://www.satellites.co.uk/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/smile.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)" data-shortname=":)" />Just my opinion <img src="https://www.satellites.co.uk/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/smile.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)" data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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