New setup with dual sky receivers - Need Advice

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From: Chris Hughes(UK) (Hughes(UK)_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 03/14/05 

Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 14:29:08 -0800

Hi All,

In the UK we can now pay a fixed fee and get the free channels on sky with a
digibox. This is great for me ask I am unable to get Freeview through an
aerial and do not want to pay a monthly subscription.
 
I currently have 1 sat dish and a powered splitter that feeds 2 identical
sky digiboxes with svideo out.

I am planning on getting 2 PCI cards with svideo inputs to allow me to
connect them to my "Not Built Yet" Windows Media Center 2005 PC. I plan to
use 2 IR blasters to control them. I believe I need 2 Sky boxes so I can
record one channel and watch another.

Will this work? If so can anyone recommend 2 good video capture cards.

I would apperciate any comments!

Thanks in advance

Chris Hughes

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