[plug] HDTV Card ... ?

[Dave Dartnall]

Linux Journal August 2004 makes the following suggestion:

... get a pre-ban HDTV card. ... Future HDTV-capable tuner cards will be 
required to enforce a to-be-determined digital rights management (DRM) 
regime. This is one product category that won't get better next year; it'll 
be worse because of the mandatory DRM. If you live in the US, if you buy no 
other PC hardware before the end of 2004, pick up a pc HDTV card. The pcHDTV 
HD-2000 Hi Definition Television Card works with the open source player XIne 
and it will be illegal to sell next year ...

What are the implications for us in Australia? Is there a similar 
Linux-compatible HDTV card available here for our (different?) hdtv 
transmission which will be similarly affected? 
Or Windows-compatible card for that matter?

regards
Dave Dartnall