Should I buy this for FTA use? Will it handle both C and Ku band dishes? Quality is somewhat of a concern, but I just want something that will *work* nicely.
I bought one on fleabay for a $1.25 + shipping =$15.00. I think It works good on c and ku went my dish is aligned. The only problem I have is switching from c to ku with a 22khz switch.
I run it with progdvb and the picture quality is good. I have been using dvb dream and it seems to control the card better and uses less cpu, but the picture quality is not as good.
If you find it at the right price go for it.
The problem with this card is that you will have troubles finding a signed x64 driver for Vista or 7 and then if you have found it and you have equal or more than 4 GB in RAM it will not work, you will need less than 4GB in RAM and they have not updated their drivers for this card since 2006.
I have both drivers the ones that need F8 and the ones that doesn't need F8 (signed drivers) but if you have more than 4GB in ram those drivers will not work on windows 7 x64.