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From: Mark Shields <laebshade@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Help finding a tv tuner card's chipset
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2007 13:13:42
Message-Id: 642958cc0709280559t1e0dceabub2668f5f62920a5b@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Help finding a tv tuner card's chipset by Hans-Werner Hilse
1 On 9/27/07, Hans-Werner Hilse <hilse@×××.de> wrote:
2 >
3 > Hi,
4 >
5 > On Thu, 27 Sep 2007 08:59:18 +0100 Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
6 > wrote:
7 >
8 > > On Thu, 27 Sep 2007 01:00:33 -0500, forgottenwizard wrote:
9 > >
10 > > > BTW, if anyone knows of a cheap tuner card (<50US preferably) that
11 > > > is decent and works with either PCI/USB/AGP, I would love to know.
12 > >
13 > > Analogue or DVB? I've used a Freecom DVB dongle with Gentoo (amd64 and
14 > > ppc) and it worked well. For a cheap PCI card, the KWorld cards are
15 > > decent.
16 >
17 > Just a short warning: The US standards are a bit different... (but
18 > KWorld has ATSC equipment, too, not just DVB).
19 >
20 > And if commercial HDTV is to be received, special care has to be taken
21 > that everything is HDMI compliant -- I think there are only hardware
22 > based solutions to this problem, and it certainly won't be cheap -- at
23 > least not <50USD, I think...
24 >
25 > -hwh
26 > --
27 > gentoo-user@g.o mailing list
28 >
29 >
30 You say HDMI compliant - do you mean HDCP compliant? That certainly makes
31 more sense in the context.
32
33 --
34 - Mark Shields

Replies

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[gentoo-user] Re: Help finding a tv tuner card's chipset Grant Edwards <grante@××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-user] Help finding a tv tuner card's chipset Patrick May <patrick@×××××××××××.net>