Fact:
Satellite uses mpeg2 and your sat box is just a
glorified mpeg2 decoder card.


In Europe they have PCI card for Satellite viewing on your PC screen.
And I guess they just would let you just save the
mpeg2 stream to your HD.

But in the USA?

Asing a pvr501, could you move over the HD to a PC and read the movies?

Capturing using the Analog out is an option buy why go this
lossy solution?