I updated the European HDTV thread to mention about the channel 'Astra HDTV'. Unfortunately HD1 decided to go encrypted

For Astra HDTV, a Skystar2 DVB PCI card and a dish pointing to 19.2E should be ample with a fairly high end PC (see my HDTV thread).

HD1 on the other hand requires a DVB PCI card with a common interface (CI), Irdeto2 compatible CAM (costing around €260 together) and a HD1 viewing card which is another €200 from what I recall, quite expensive just for one channel HDTV.