recommendation for best tv video card?

[Bob Nielsen]

On Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 08:55:30PM -0500, William F Pearson III wrote:
> I'll have to agree that the Wintv Cards are good I had the Wintv DBX,
> that's the stereo version. The PVR cards are a little more tricky to
> get working with linux and they record with mpeg2. If you're big on
> open standards mpeg2 probably isn't going to appeal to you. ATI has a
> new HDTV Wonder card out that isn't supported in Linux, no kernel
> modules available last time I checked. In fact most of the terrestrial
> HDTV cards aren't, otherwise I would snatch one up immediately. If you
> are thinking of ever trying an HDTV card and live in the United
> States, you need to finde one before this July to avoid the dreaded
> broadcast flag that will prevent you from recording some shows.

I have the HD-3000 card <http://pchdtv.com>, which I understand will no
longer be available after July 1.  The supplied software is far from
perfect, but the 2.6.12 kernel will include suitable driver modules
(2.6.12-rc2 does now). 

There is a hacked HD version of xine supplied which partially works for
me.  For digital non-HD broadcasts it works fine, although I have to
start it from a command line or script, as the control panel won't do
everything which is needed.  A HD program will create a window much
larger than the screen size and when I resize it to fit I end up with a
large pink area the right edge of the picture.  It's a step in the right 
direction.

This card works with xawtv, motv and tvtime for NTSC, but they each have 
their own issues.

Bob