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On Mon, 2006-10-02 at 18:04 -0700, maxim wexler wrote: |
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> Hi group, |
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> Do these things work very well? What's a good one? Is |
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> it gentoo-friendly. |
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if it's linux-friendly, it's gentoo-friendly :) |
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> I'll be using it with a Viewsonic 17" LCD with a |
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> digital connector and a ATI Radeon 256M vid card. |
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so long as it's a reasonable machine, you should be fine. I run |
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fullscreen TV on a 17in on a GeForce FX5200, and and athlon 1700 XP with |
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no worries. |
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> I saw one work back in 2000 and thought the picture |
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> quality quite poor. Have they improved much since |
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> then? |
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In my experience (I've only tried a couple of cards) the quality is |
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generally related to your signal - put up a good antennae and some |
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decent cabling, and you should be hunky dory! |
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However, I wouldn't be surprised if there was a card out there somewhere |
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that gave you a crap picture no matter what. |
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Look for reviews on linux sites - they should tell you how easy they are |
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to get working, and how well they work. |
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I personally like the COMPRO DTV-300 - it does digital terrestrial, and |
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analog in one card, and it's fairly cheap. Not much for hardware |
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encoding though. But that can easily be made up with a beefier system. |
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HTH, |
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Iain Buchanan <iaindb at netspace dot net dot au> |
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Be consistent. |
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-- Larry Wall in the perl man page |
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