For Media Center the FloppyDTV DVB-S device with built in CI from www.digital-everywhere.com works great with a Dragon or T.Rex CAM & Sky subscription card. There are other cards without CI that can be configured for just the Free To Air channels but the ease of use, stability & manufacturer support of the FloppyDTV device make it worth ...

One option is to use the subscription card in one tuner & a Free TV card in the other (the 20 pound card that gives you C4, five, five US, five Life & Sky Three) the use Mark Salloway's Media Center Tuner Priority utility to force the subscription card to be used first for all Live TV & recordings ...

I can't see a cablecard solution coming soon for Sky. There is a DVB-S solution for free to air satellite listen to this show for more details http://mediacenter.thepodcastnetwork.com/2006/04/20/the-media-center-show-54-nigel-barker/