recommendation for best tv video card?

[emperor]

William F Pearson III Wrote: 
> Thanks Bob for that info. I'll have to get one of those soon. I've yet
> to have anyone I know try one out and for $170 USD I didn't really
> want to be a guinea pig. The ATI HD wonder looked nice, but _*ATI_has
> _been_slow_in_releasing_any_supporting_documentation_or_drivers_for
> _linux_i*_n the past so I don't expect them to do it for that card.

ATI has NEVER released linux drivers to support the TV portion of their
cards! Anyone with AIW cards is at the mercy of the Gatos Project which
is about 2 years behind! There is an Xorg 6.7.0 binary now, but most
people are running 6.8.x.

So, do not buy ATI AIW or ATI HDTV cards period! Just say NO!

I now recommend SAA713x based cardsfor TV, cheap (< $50) and usually
have a FM receiver as well.. However there is a frame drop problem with
the current 2.6.10 kernel in Hoary and the "dev's" will not look into
the problem because they do not support "tvtime" or "xawtv".


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