Which DVB-T card for the UK?

[meat]

I use Xlobby, Foobar and Nero Showtime/Theatertek for my HTPC. The HTPC is connected to a 5.1 card and amp via optical the card does not encode from stereo and Dolby Surround to 5.1. I use a widescreen Projector to watch everything on. I am planning multi-room via wired or wireless and have 4 wireless clients most are WinCE .net 4.0.

My Xlobby is as close to the excellent default setting right now due to Windows being reinstalled recently. I am without a DVB-T card. I wish to view and record, and so have twin tuners. I came across the usual name brands in PCI and USB cards. I saw VideoLan and digi-TV from Nebula which allow streaming video. I would like this feature, but I know Windows Media Encoder can provide the same streaming service from any card.

So the million dollar question which card is for me to work with Xlobby EPG and scheduler, the remote keys on media keyboards, with pseudo 5.1 sound if possible. The sound from the telly on a home theatre system is badly equalised for older TV recordings so I hope the 5.1 encoder will level the audio and I wont have to dive for the Mute button when an advert comes on. Value is important as is copatibility with Xlobby, using a plugin.

I have searched

[meat]

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[dgemily]

if you plan to use xltv plugin for tv integration in xlobby:
xltv works with softwares: progdvb, wintv2000, mytheatre and K!tv.
so if a dvb-t card works with one of this software, it will also works with xltv plugin.

I know some dvb-_t cards works with progdvb and mytheatre...

later

[m_ski]

Not specifically for usage with xlobby but I can definitely recommend the DNTV Live! series of cards (PCI & USB) from Digitalnow in Australia. I use both a TinyUSB2 and DNTV Live! Pro PCI card in the UK for DVB-T and they seem to work very well. I use webscheduler for setting up recordings which I plan to integrate into xlobby using a plugin I am writing (don't hold your breath though).
The DNTV Live cards are all BDA compliant which means they should work with progDVB as mentioned by dgemily (I haven't tested it though as I only use these cards for recording and not for Live TV). Definitely go for a card that uses BDA drivers as this gives you the widest range of software choices.