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Also, you might have trouble accessing hardware from within VMware... Might be better off running the PVR and VMware from within Linux, and then Windows within the VMware. Or just forget about Windows and run IceWM/Firefox/etc. :)

FordPrefect, VMware Server is free, oddly enough. Try that out first and see if it does what you need!

Thanks glen4cindy. I did not know you could do that with TitanTV!

I am interested in that as well. Is there any kind of "FTA TV Guide"? It would make FTA much more usable for TV watching (as opposed to just hobbyist use) if you had a guide. I also thing some kind of guide would help me justify buying a PVR of some sort!

Even if you've tried both a straight-through and a null-modem cable, it's worth trying a couple more. I recently had a similar problem, and it turned out one of my cables was bad!

Louisville, Kentucky, United States of America! mmmmmmmmmmm motorized!

Thanks to everyone! It turned out to be a bad cable (one of those light blue cisco cables). Replaced it with an identical one and it worked! Now I'm just trying to figure out how to program the universal remote it came with. I hold down "TV" and "OK" for several seconds, but TV never lights...

OK, I made the mistake of buying my first set-top FTA box off of Ebay... It's a Coolsat 6000 Premium, and it seems to work OK (crashed once but might have been my flaky Disecq switch or something). I thought about upgrading the firmware but noticed that the firmware it was shipped with is...

Signal Strength vs Quality It's true that an amplifier amplifies both signal and noise, but in my case the signal was amplified enough to increase it's reliability. In fact, quality isn't necessarily higher than before, but it stays around 65% more consistently. Too bad I'm not a soccer fan...

Rat Shack to the rescue My twinham vp-1025 w/ dish-500 was receiving ~ 60% signal on the dish FTA channels, but a cheap $11 sat amplifier from radio-shack (placed inline near the dish) boosted that to ~ 75%. Now to get a real (3-ft plus) dish and a 0.3dB LNB, and I'll be picking up all...