Any new options for getting satellite tuners w/ card support for SageTV?

[vorius]

Long ago I was looking all over for a hardware solution to get encrypted/subscriber based satellite TV into my computer and on SageTV bypassing the receiver I currently use.

The only solutions I found were products available only to Europe.

Anyone know about new solutions for this available to the US ?

I use satellite to receive a particular foreign TV service which I have a subscriber card to watch. It's just two channels on a transponder. It's nothing to do with one of the major satellite providers like DirecTV or Dish.

These two channels do post XMLTV data on their programming, so if I were to find a hardware solution to get SageTV to control the tuning then it would be great as I would also be able to get the EPG data. Right now SageTV knows nothing about those channels so all I get are 2 hour blocks of "No Data". Makes it impossible to schedule recording or see what's coming up.

[stanger89]

Do they use DVB? Standard DVB? If so you should be able to use the european DVB-S cards and their CAM modules.

[vorius]

Yes, they do use DVB. But how can I get those European cards? Last time I tried I could not find anything unless I paid big bucks to order Internationally - is that the price I have to pay to get this?

[stanger89]

I think cyberestore carries DVB-S cards, though I'm not sure about the CAM modules, I suppose those might be tougher to find.

[vorius]

cool, thanks for the tips. Yeah I dont see a card on their web site that supports the smart card as input to decrypt subscriber based channels but I emailed them to see if they can get me one.