Digital TV hardware?

[Morgan Storey]

Next question which dual port tv cards are Ubuntu/Linux compatible, or
someone has had some experience with could maybe comment?

On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 11:31 AM, Owen Townend <owen.townend at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
>
> 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:
> >
> >
> > >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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