Re: New TV Tuner cards ??

H William,

I have HDTV card (hd-3000) from http://www.pchdtv.com/.  Now they are up 
to model hd-5500. It works out of the box as of kernel 2.6.12. Truly a 
very good product; I have been very happy with it.

Regards,

Piotr

William Case wrote:
> Hi;
> 
> Has anyone recently purchased a TV Tuner card that works successfully
> with Linux and Rogers Cable?  I.e. TVTime or MythTV, plus v4l and/or
> bttv drivers?
> 
> I received an ATI Wonder Theater 550 card as a gift a couple of years
> back and no Linux drivers have been developed for it -- although it
> works fine in WindowsXP.  If you have recently heard of such a Linux
> driver for it, please let me know.
> 
> Meanwhile I am looking at replacing it with an Hauppage WinTV-HVR-1800.
> I have looked at various "hardware supported" sites, and this particular
> model seems iffy.  The Hauppage specs don't give the chip used.
> 
> I am not locked into this card.  I just want to get my cable TV onto my
> Linux system.  Therefore, all suggestions gratefully received.
> 
> 


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