Can I get a TV card with hardware encoding ?

["Andrew Cooke" <acooke@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sorry for this, I know this question often re-appears in many scyziz.. but

I'm going to nick an old PC from work, and want to turn it into a PVR. Sure
it good enough to play DIVX and I'll through a large HD or 2 ! together
with
a big of RAM.

But because I've got SKY I don't need a TUNER..

I simply need fo it to be able to control SKY, and to record and encode at
the right time

oh. and I need a good TV card... Ideally progressive desplay

Does anyone have a similar setup already....