TV decoder?

apu95 · February 8th, 2003

**first of all, id like to ask to have this thread closed immediately if the contents in it are considered a form of piracy or something like that...**

i have a satellite dish on my house's roof. it has the chance to give two signals. one of them goes to the livingroom. the other is unused. to view the signal one has to use one of those little black boxes which have a sort of plastic card in them. is it possible to view this signal in a pc using a tv tuner and some sort of decoding program (if so, which prog is it)? or is it viewable already if connected to the pc?

thx, Apu

**LeeJend** · February 8th, 2003

Yes, what you are suggesting is piracy, unless you pay Direct TV for 2 receivers.

No, there is no program that will do it. You need a hardware decoder to convert the satellite signals to something a PC TV tuner can receive.

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apu95 Caffeine-->Code Converter Joined: April 2002 Location: Montreal, Canada Posts: 502 Reputation: 60 Power: 128	TV decoder? first of all, id like to ask to have this thread closed immediately if the contents in it are considered a form of piracy or something like that... i have a satellite dish on my house's roof. it has the chance to give two signals. one of them goes to the livingroom. the other is unused. to view the signal one has to use one of those little black boxes which have a sort of plastic card in them. is it possible to view this signal in a pc using a tv tuner and some sort of decoding program (if so, which prog is it)? or is it viewable already if connected to the pc? thx, Apu Telepathic: Q6600, 4 GB, HD3650, Audigy, Win7 64 Phantom: P4 3.0 800 FSB, D865GBFL, 512 DDR400, Radeon 9200 128, SB Live 5.1, WD 80gb, 16x DVD, Samsung SW-204B 40x24x40 CD-RW Psychic: ASUS M50SV: Core 2 Duo T8100, 3GB DDR2, nVidia 9500GS, 250GB (Win7), BluRay, 802.11b/g/n

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LeeJend OSNN Veteran Addict Joined: January 2003 Location: Fort Worth, TX Posts: 5,261 Reputation: 3386 Power: 199	Yes, what you are suggesting is piracy, unless you pay Direct TV for 2 receivers. No, there is no program that will do it. You need a hardware decoder to convert the satellite signals to something a PC TV tuner can receive.