I have a satellite signal I want to capture and so far I have been using the Navis-Pro realtime MPEG2 capture card.

Instead of taking the composite or s-video signal out and feeding it into a capture card, I figured it would be much better to just capture that digital signal to the hard drive directly. Then I would have the same MPEG2 data that the satellite gives (i.e. no loss).

Does this sound right? And if so, does anyone know of any product that can do this? Also, a capture scheduler (PVR) application would be good too.

Thanks

P.S. I think I have seen PCI satellite receiver cards, but I'm not sure if they just play out to TV or actually save the file to disk