[mythtv-users] completely new and have questions before I buy hardware

[Quenten Griffith]

I am looking to setup my first mythtv box and have zero experience with tvtuners and the different types of broadcast signals.  I have a few quick questions that may be easy to answer for some of you experts.

I live in the US and analog is going to go away in 2009.  I was going to purchase a PVR-350 card, however you can't find it any where since it is analog.  If I find this card, and just hook it up to coax (not the Timewarner box), will it still work after February 2009?  If I get a digital based card (does anyone have recommendations that play well with Linux) will it work hooked to coax and not going through a cable box?  The CPU I plan on using is rather old it is a Athelon 64bit 3200, so I was looking for a card with the decoder/encoder built on the tvtuner card, however it appears only analog cards come with this feature, do the digital cards not need this?

Thanks so much for your help on my questions.



      
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