GaryPen said:Depending on what sports and news feeds I would be able to receive, I may give this FTA thing a shot. Since I am adding a PC to my home theater for SlingBox reception anyway, I think I will opt for a PCI card FTA tuner, to avoid yet another set top box.
In fact, if I find enough programming on FTA, I may experiment with OTA and QAM tuner cards, and do away with STB's all together. I suppose that if I add a DL DVD-RW to the HTPC, I can get rid of my STB DVD-R, as well. I love selling off the old stuff to help pay for the new!
Don't do it backwards... get the STB before the card. Once you want to start getting HD and 4:2:2 feeds then you get the STB card. You can't blind scan with the FTA card and it's also a struggle to move the motor especially for newbies. I've been doing the FTA thing for over and year and I wouldn't want to do it with a FTA PCI card alone.