[TriLUG] HDTV card

[John Turner]

On Feb 20, 2007, at ,Feb 20, 11:58 AM, Lee Fickenscher wrote:

> Has anyone tried any of the other HDTV cards?
> I was looking at the http://www.hauppauge.com/pages/products/ 
> data_hvr1600.html
> It has both digital and analog tuners. Combined with my PVR500 that  
> would give me four tuners (1 digital, 3 analog) in two PCI slots.
> I've been happy with hauppauge products, very unhappy with pinnacle  
> products, and never used a pcHDTV.
> Hauppauge cards seem to have fairly good linux support.
> -Lee
>
>

I had a pcHDTV (older model and sold it). Since then I have built a  
new box and have been using the FusionHDTV 3 (I think the lastest  
version is the 5). My cards were between $79 and $99 each. They have  
been working fine, but if I was building a new system now I would go  
with the HDHomeRun ( http://www.9thtee.com/hdhomerun.htm ). It is a  
dual tuner network device that is $170. It works with MythTV, VLC,  
Sage, etc. I was even able to get it working with MythTV backend  
running on my MacBook Pro.

John