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How to translate the satellite in PC to a TV screen.
What cable will be needed?
How can the satellite show on the TV screen after the connection?

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There are two separate tasks embedded in the original question, and the correct approach depends on which one actually means. is right that raw satellite reception is not something a plain PC can do by itself; pointed to common ways to get PC video onto a TV. Below is a concise, practical breakdown that ties those ideas together and gives next steps.

If the goal is to receive satellite broadcasts into a PC you need an RF front end: a dish and LNB plus a DVB-S/DVB-S2 tuner (USB or PCIe) that the OS recognizes, and coax (typically RG6 with F-type connectors) from the LNB to the tuner. Set up the tuner in the OS, run a TV server/scanner to lock transponders and channels, then use a PVR frontend or a network streaming backend so other devices can play the feed. The DVB-S2 standard and how satellite broadcasting works are described in the DVB documentation and references (DVB-S2). For LAN streaming and PVR backends see projects like TVHeadend for examples of how a tuner can serve channels to TVs and apps (TVHeadend).

If the goal is simply “show what the PC is doing” on a television, that is a separate step: output the PC video to the television or stream the PC’s decoded/played content over the local network to a smart TV or media player. Important cautions: encrypted/pay TV channels require an authorised CAM/smartcard (bypassing this is illegal); HDMI capture from set-top boxes is often blocked by HDCP; streaming/transcoding multiple HD streams needs sufficient network bandwidth and CPU (or hardware encoders). Troubleshooting tips: confirm the tuner appears in Device Manager or lsusb, verify LNB power and coax continuity, scan the correct satellite transponders, and check firewall/router rules when streaming across the LAN.

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That's news to me. I've never seen the usual Windows PC used for this. Read https://www.wikihow.com/Install-and-Set-Up-Free-to-Air-Satellite-TV-Program-Receiver-System and see if you have the necessary gear and hardware.

commented: The PC transform to a satellite and broadcast programs on TV screen after connection. So that the PC act like a receiver without a dish or LNB cabling +2
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I do it in either of two ways:

  1. Chromecast
  2. HDMI cable
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The PC transform to a satellite and broadcast programs on TV screen after connection. So that the PC act like a receiver without a dish or LNB cabling

Besides "streaming" have you seen such a thing? To pick up satellite signals and show them on a PC or TV we need the gear. If you can find the content on the web then it has nothing to do with a satellite transmission. It's called streaming.

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