Offline download is a free manner and easy way for everyone that use DVB-S/S2 tuner card to download files and data from satellite. With this manner you can use some software such as Skynet. There are often 2 kind of this offline download software. The old one that must be started with ProgDVB and the new one that is separately. Now we would like to talk about the new Skynet., which can download the data separately. After Download this software, you have to unzip and copy in a partition that has large free space. This kind of Skynet has to start with Streamreader. It's important that this streamreader must be set with your DVB-S/S2 tuner card Driver. Then, here is a quick installation guide for using Skynet and streamreader to start offline download by skynet. Step 1: Open Skynet folder and copy streamreader of your satellite tuner card in the main folder. Open “skynet.ini” to edit TP specification. At the button you should put or edit TP and put PID (you can use general pid 8192 or use the specific pid for the TP). Step 2: Run Skynet 1. You can see downloading data in Skynet window. 2 Complete files will be saved in OK folder, incomplete files in incomplete folder and temporary files in temp folder. TBS satellite tuner cards are all compatible with their own streamreaders, which are aslo fully compatible with the new skynet. There is no doubt that TBS series tuner cards would be a great compliance with many software to watch satellite tv on PC, such as DVBDream, ProgDVB, AltDVB, Skynet, Skygrabber,TSreader. With TBS6981 PCI-E DVB-S2 Dual Tuner card and Skynet, you can download 2 transponders’ data (movie, music, pictures) synchronously, or, you can download files from one tuner, and watch the must-see program from another tuner. In another word, TBS satellite tuner card series and Skynet bring more fun to you. Related Articles: How to to watch satellite TV on AltDVB with TBS 6981 How to Use SkyGrabber Download Satellite Data by Digital Satellite TV Tuner card

To watch satellite/ digital TV with Windows 7 Media Center, it’s important to set up the Windows Media Center correctly. Take Using the TBS 6981 (PCI-e DVB-S2 dual tuner card) as sample, let’s show you how to watch TV on window 7 media center. .
Before you start to set up Windows 7 Media Center, please make sure that the TV tuner, TBS 6981 (PCI-e DVB-S2 dual tuner card) should be connected to your PC and the driver is installed.
Step 1:
Windows Media Center -> Tasks -> settings -> TV -> TV Signal -> Set Up TV Signal
Follow the steps to set up the DVB-S/S2 tuner card on the window Media Center.
For example, suppose you are in Germany, you can follow the below steps and get to know how to set up the satellite tv card with window system. When the dish points to Astra 19.2E- , you can be show with “ TV signal detection result” as below. Then choose “yes” and finish the signal setup.

and at the end:

please note that Windows Media Center based on the selected country and check whether it runs automatically and detects that the signals are most probably from Astra 19.2E satellite.
Please note that all initially found channels in the list are predefined by Windows 7 Media Center and added automatically from Microsoft database and their parameters are usually wrong and trying them will results in "no signal" message, because Microsoft predefined database is not always up to date, but in any case ignore it and just continue with go to:
Step 2:
Windows Media Center -> Tasks -> settings -> TV -> TV Signal -> Satellite Transponder Scan -> Single transponder scan
and scan some satellite transponder manually (As it shows in the scan shot, it’s used 11362 H):
- mc_scan_001

In the end, 3 new channels on that transponder are found successfully:


Step 3:
Windows Media Center -> TV -> live TV
When the new scanned channels are added at the end of the channel list (don't use predefined channels in the list, because as mentioned their parameters are usually wrong), you can select one of them to watch. All them are in perfect HD and fine sound video.