From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IavTh-0002TE-Fg for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 27 Sep 2007 15:40:38 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.1/8.14.0) with SMTP id l8RFTaT9004163; Thu, 27 Sep 2007 15:29:36 GMT Received: from gabriel.sub.uni-goettingen.de (gabriel.sub.uni-goettingen.de [134.76.163.126]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.1/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l8RFO7CL029304 for ; Thu, 27 Sep 2007 15:24:07 GMT Received: by gabriel.sub.uni-goettingen.de (Postfix, from userid 8) id 9B0123246B4; Sat, 29 Sep 2007 19:15:56 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost (unknown [134.76.161.221]) by gabriel.sub.uni-goettingen.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D6953246B3 for ; Sat, 29 Sep 2007 19:15:56 +0200 (CEST) Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 17:24:06 +0200 From: Hans-Werner Hilse To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Help finding a tv tuner card's chipset Message-Id: <20070927172406.d44dbd2e.hilse@web.de> In-Reply-To: <20070927085918.250517dc@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> References: <20070926212945.GA14473@localhost> <20070926182543.6b3e0d4a@pascal.spore.ath.cx> <1190853825.7659.22.camel@localhost> <20070927044038.GA29173@localhost> <1190871901.11794.78.camel@orpheus> <20070927060033.GA29400@localhost> <20070927085918.250517dc@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.4.5 (GTK+ 2.12.0; i586-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.64 (2004-01-11) on gabriel.sub.uni-goettingen.de X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=2.64 X-Archives-Salt: 95fa8932-4196-457a-ad9c-076c3ed164fe X-Archives-Hash: 542feda7316e35ea72b45f4b7af92484 Hi, On Thu, 27 Sep 2007 08:59:18 +0100 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 27 Sep 2007 01:00:33 -0500, forgottenwizard wrote: > > > BTW, if anyone knows of a cheap tuner card (<50US preferably) that > > is decent and works with either PCI/USB/AGP, I would love to know. > > Analogue or DVB? I've used a Freecom DVB dongle with Gentoo (amd64 and > ppc) and it worked well. For a cheap PCI card, the KWorld cards are > decent. Just a short warning: The US standards are a bit different... (but KWorld has ATSC equipment, too, not just DVB). And if commercial HDTV is to be received, special care has to be taken that everything is HDMI compliant -- I think there are only hardware based solutions to this problem, and it certainly won't be cheap -- at least not <50USD, I think... -hwh -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list