pcHDTV HD-5500

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Sat, Apr 21, 2007 at 10:46:34AM -0400, Colin McGregor wrote:
> I am looking at upgrades to my MythTV box, and one of
> the topics I am looking at is getting an HDTV card. In
> particular I am interested in the pcHDTV HD-5500 PCI
> tuner card (which does support Linux (in fact Windows
> is not officially supported :-) ) . So, I have some
> questions:
> 
> - Anyone with experience using this card locally?
> - Anyone know of a local source for this card (I have
> yet to find one)?
> - Would there be any interest in putting together a
> bulk order with several people getting together in
> order to get a volume discount on these cards?

I am tempted to get one, but on the other hand putting up an OTA antenna
seems like a pain, and other than the time shift channels on rogers
cable you wouldn't get much with the QAM tuner since most things are
encrypted (like all the local HDTV channels for example).

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