[plug] tv tuner recommendations

[cobel at bigpond.com]

If they're only around $20 why not just have a stab at one? I think some of the cheap ebay cards have a phillips chipset that I recall reading somewhere 'might' work, but I also seem to recall that the cheap cards are greatly lacking in actual performance. The only other thing I can say is I have two avermedia cards (one analog pcmcia and one dual hybrid pci-e) and neither of them work with linux.


---- Gavin Chester <gavin.chester at gmail.com> wrote: 
> On Mon, 2008-04-14 at 12:41 +0800, Michael Holland wrote:
> > Gavin Chester wrote:
> > > Anyone got any experiences and recommendations for a tv tuner for my
> > > laptop running opensuse/kde?
> > > 
> > > 1/ brand (cheapies on ebay are <$20, but problematic for linux)? 
> > > 2/ usb or pcmcia?
> > > 3/ analog or hdtv?
> > > 4/ fm radio extra bonus?
> > 
> > Digitial (DVB) - obviously!?
> > pcmcia is obsolete, so USB.
> 
> Well, it's just that I have the pcmcia slot and cards are seemingly
> cheap ;-)
> > 
> > for Linux compatibility:
> > http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/DVB-T_USB_Devices
> 
> All the offerings I was eyeing on ebay are no-name brand from overseas.
> Very cheap, but a case of "buyer beware" in terms of linux
> compatibility, then would you say?
> 
> Gavin 
> 
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