Digital TV hardware?

[Owen Townend]

On 11/04/2008, daniel.mons at iinet.net.au <daniel.mons at iinet.net.au> wrote:
>
> I'm running a Yuan PG300 PCI DVB-T card (also called a Stratford
> PG300).  It cost me $55, and happily decodes all Australian free-to-air
> DVB-T channels (including hi-def channels, although you will need a fairly
> beefy PC to view them).
>
> It works out of the box in Gutsy.  Pre-gutsy you needed to manually feed a
> card number while loading the kernel module, but it still worked fine.
>
> I'm currently running mine in a Mythbuntu machine (MythTV / XFCE4 /
> Xubuntu mish-mash project) as a homebrew PVR.  MythTV's web interface makes
> it trivial to schedule recordings (MythTV can pull TV schedules from the EIT
> broadcast over DVB-T).  Recorded shows can be transcoded (XVid is my codec
> of choice) and copied off to other machines in the house with ease.  Very
> cool little project.
>
> I'll be buying another identical card shortly, as the family are starting
> to see how easy the MythTV box is to use, and the inevitable is occurring:
> people want to record multiple channels at once, which means needing another
> card. :)
>
> -Dan


Hey,
 Dual tuner cards are now only ~$100[1], I think if I were to buy
another it'd be just as easy to get one of these.
 Interesting note: A mate who has one noted that his PCI card is
actually detected as a USB hub with the two tuner modules hanging off it.

cheers,
Owen.

[1] At least at places like msy/itestate/fluidtek

  On Fri Apr 11  9:48 , Paul Gear  sent:
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>
> >Anyone know any good digital tuner hardware (PCI, USB, or otherwise)
> >
> >that works with Ubuntu?  I don't want to spend money on a new TV.  :-)
> >
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