[mythtv-users] ATSC Capture Reccomendations

[Richard Shaw]

On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 4:23 AM, Jon <jon.the.wise.gdrive at gmail.com> wrote:
> Okay, I've been moseying around the interweb looking for a new
>  capture card. First, I went to
>  <http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Category:HDTV_capture_cards>
>  then, after that, I started scouring TigerDirect/Newegg/Frys
>  (outpost.com)/BestBuy looking for cards.
>
>  I want something relatively cheap (cost, not quality), as I'm
>  planning on spending under $250 to upgrade my MBE. I want to put a
>  new HDD and an ATSC card. I would sort-of like to have a hardware SD
>  encoder available, but that's not a deal breaker, as I've been using
>  frame-grabbers since 0.17 without any problems (well, other than a
>  TON of audio issues, but that's another thing)
>
>  Currently my system uses a couple of Hauppage BT878 cards (WinTV-Go
>  Plus) and I really would like to phase those out when I upgrade to
>  0.21. The hardware is an almost matched set of systems. They are both
>  Intel 854G boards with P4 processors. One has a 2.4, and the other a
>  2.8HT. Both have a gig of ram. I have OpenSUSE 10.3 on my second
>  (SBE) system, and Fedora6 (about to get nuked in favor of SUSE, I
>  think) on the MBE. I've been a RedHat user since RedHat 5.0, but have
>  found openSUSE to be much easier to setup/configure.
>
>  So, that being said, what kind of cards you suggest?
>
>  ~Jon

Well, it's not a card per say, but my HDHomerun has worked flawlessly.
Only $169 and two tuners, plus you can locate it somewhere else on
your network if needed (to keep antenna cable runs minimized).

Richard

Richard