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<blockquote data-quote="NWW" data-source="post: 751823" data-attributes="member: 372502">As I'm in exactly the same process (expanding the TV-side of our house for my parents ^^) I've been through this exact setup.For your centralised TV-server, Google : DVBlink Network Pack + TV Source. That should give you enough reading, and 21 days trial to try it out. If you don't plan on streaming outside your house (if you stream outside your house, there is a transcoding happening), you won't need a spec'ed out PC. Any relatively new pc would do it. As for the OS, I would recommend Windows 7 instead of WHS, as it can be hard to set up this program with WHS.Any tuner should do (just look out if your using a motorised-dish, there is a list of supported tuners on that website). The dish is depending on what satellites you wanna catch. Over here in Belgium (hey, neighbour!) I use a 80cm dish we bought 10 years ago, and it's picking up Hotbird/Astra and Astra 2 just fine.For the HTPC, I recommend you go on _http://avsforum.com in the HTPC section, and look at the stickied posts up top. I went for a core i5-2500k in my room, and core i3-2100 in the other rooms, as my room is the server. No need for GPU with those CPUs, unless you want something beefier.As for cardsharing, I'm not sure I can discuss that over here, but Google is your friend.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="NWW, post: 751823, member: 372502"] As I'm in exactly the same process (expanding the TV-side of our house for my parents ^^) I've been through this exact setup. For your centralised TV-server, Google : DVBlink Network Pack + TV Source. That should give you enough reading, and 21 days trial to try it out. If you don't plan on streaming outside your house (if you stream outside your house, there is a transcoding happening), you won't need a spec'ed out PC. Any relatively new pc would do it. As for the OS, I would recommend Windows 7 instead of WHS, as it can be hard to set up this program with WHS. Any tuner should do (just look out if your using a motorised-dish, there is a list of supported tuners on that website). The dish is depending on what satellites you wanna catch. Over here in Belgium (hey, neighbour!) I use a 80cm dish we bought 10 years ago, and it's picking up Hotbird/Astra and Astra 2 just fine. For the HTPC, I recommend you go on _http://avsforum.com in the HTPC section, and look at the stickied posts up top. I went for a core i5-2500k in my room, and core i3-2100 in the other rooms, as my room is the server. No need for GPU with those CPUs, unless you want something beefier. As for cardsharing, I'm not sure I can discuss that over here, but Google is your friend. [/QUOTE]

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