Delivery was 1 day early. Card was a bit of a pain to set up in Windows Media Center (Win 8) but got there eventually. Tip for setting up WMC (Win 8) in the UK using SKY dish: Install the latest driver from the cards web page. Manually set the card up with ASTRA 2A-B-D (28.2E), EUROBIRD 1 (28.5E). I had no bars on the signal (The signal was there but WMC did not detect it). Then scan for channels and it should detect them. If not check you line feeds are connected properly and try again.
Note: on my system there was NO signal strength showing in WMC but it was there. Hope this helps, as there was no manual. The supplied player software was OK but not really user friendly. and driver CD was outdated, so get the Windows driver from their website (http://www.dvbsky.net/Support_win.html)
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DVBSky S952
Decent card. Works perfect in Windows Media Center in Windows 7 it just works it's a far better card than the Video Mate S360 which I bought and couldn't get it to work like this S952. Even get HD Channels the good thing is that the card takes the load when watching channels not the CPU. Some cards uses the CPU to encode the video but the encoding side is on the card. Using this card in a Dell Dimension 530 which I turned into a Media Center machine. Recommend downloading the latest drivers from DVBSky website. I'm defiantly going to order another one of these cards for the HP Elite 8000 in the living room. The DVBSky S952 requires a 6 pin power if your power supply doesn't have one then you can use the 6 pin to sata cable which the card comes with. If your power supply doesn't have a SATA power cable spare then I highly recommend you replace your power supply to something decent. Core 2 Duo handles HD channels perfectly fine. Wouldn't recommend anything older such as Pentium 4 or HD channels won't play. All Transponders and frequencies in Media Center work you may need to add some frequencies depending on what part is the world your in. Using Astra Transponder in the UK and Northern Ireland. Your satellite dish requires dual LNB. If you only have a single LNB on your dish then you will need to replace it to either a Dual or quad LNB. You can use a single LNB but you will only get playback side on tuner 1. Tuner 2 is for recording when watching one channel and recording another. If you decided to use only playback side on tuner 1 then you will only be able to watch one channel and record one channel. I will be ordering another. I highly recommend this card. The HD channel list I getBBC ONE HDBBC TWO HDITV HDChannel 4 HDChannel 5 HDThe dell machine specs.Dell Dimension 530Core 2 Duo E84004GB DDR2 667ATI Radeon 5450 1024MB64GB Sandisk Solid State1TB Seagate Hard drives.
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Decent card. Works perfect in Windows Media Center in Windows 7 it just works it's a far better card than the Video Mate S360 which I bought and couldn't get it to work like this S952. Even get HD Channels the good thing is that the card takes the load when watching channels not the CPU. Some cards uses the CPU to encode the video but the encoding side is on the card. Using this card in a Dell Dimension 530 which I turned into a Media Center machine. Recommend downloading the latest drivers from DVBSky website. I'm defiantly going to order another one of these cards for the HP Elite 8000 in the living room. The DVBSky S952 requires a 6 pin power if your power supply doesn't have one then you can use the 6 pin to sata cable which the card comes with. If your power supply doesn't have a SATA power cable spare then I highly recommend you replace your power supply to something decent. Core 2 Duo handles HD channels perfectly fine. Wouldn't recommend anything older such as Pentium 4 or HD channels won't play. All Transponders and frequencies in Media Center work you may need to add some frequencies depending on what part is the world your in. Using Astra Transponder in the UK and Northern Ireland. Your satellite dish requires dual LNB. If you only have a single LNB on your dish then you will need to replace it to either a Dual or quad LNB. You can use a single LNB but you will only get playback side on tuner 1. Tuner 2 is for recording when watching one channel and recording another. If you decided to use only playback side on tuner 1 then you will only be able to watch one channel and record one channel. I will be ordering another. I highly recommend this card. The HD channel list I get
BBC ONE HD
BBC TWO HD
ITV HD
Channel 4 HD
Channel 5 HD
The dell machine specs.
Dell Dimension 530
Core 2 Duo E8400
4GB DDR2 667
ATI Radeon 5450 1024MB
64GB Sandisk Solid State
1TB Seagate Hard drives.
BBC ONE HD
BBC TWO HD
ITV HD
Channel 4 HD
Channel 5 HD
The dell machine specs.
Dell Dimension 530
Core 2 Duo E8400
4GB DDR2 667
ATI Radeon 5450 1024MB
64GB Sandisk Solid State
1TB Seagate Hard drives.
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