[mythtv] NEW ATSC/HDTV card for MythTV

[Taylor Jacob]

I appoligize if this post seems redundant, but I wasn't sure how many people in
ATSC land would read the DVB Patch 3.0 post..

I have just finished up writing drivers for the Air2PC-ATSC card and submited
them to linux-dvb for inclusion in the dvb-kernel.  I also have added some
better support for ATSC in the DVB patch, since I now have some decent ATSC
feeds coming in to test with.  I have added support for channel scanning, and
am at properly parsing the EIT now.. I am hoping to finish refactoring some
critical parts of the SI (PSIP as well) parser, and put out another patch with
much improved support for ATSC and DVB cards using the linux-dvb driverset..

The only place that I am aware of that sells these cards currently is
www.cyberestore.com if anyone is intrested in getting one.  I only have one, so
I cannot tell how it will do with 100% certaintity how it will do recording  3
shows, and watching another.  In my brief tests I was able to record Jay Leno
in HD (80 megabit stream) and watch it using the same machine.  Recording took
about 10% cpu, and the hard drive barely seemed phased streaming that to the
hard drive.  I also was only using an AMD 1800+ CPU.  The BBTI card has
hardware filtering and also a 4th gen tuner/demodulator so it should take
consideribly less load on the backend than the pchdtv, and give better
reception.

I am really excited about having another option for HD recording in linux before
the drop dead date for the broadcast flag hits next year.

Taylor