[mythtv-users] Tuner opinions?

[Brian Wood]

On Tuesday 23 February 2010 08:49:33 am Devin Heitmueller wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 9:08 PM, John Kasunich <jmkasunich at fastmail.fm> 
wrote:
> > The FM radio input is nice, but I have no idea if there is or will ever
> > be Linux driver support for it.  Does anybody know?  I listen to music
> > at least as much as I watch TV, so it would be nice if my "media center"
> > could handle that form of media.
> 
> If analog support in general ever gets upstream, adding the radio
> support is a relatively small addition.  Unfortunately, you need 99%
> of the analog support infrastructure in order for radio support to be
> added.

Most cable systems seem to have a LOT of "digital music" channels, and DISH 
has Sirius.

I know it seems like a waste of bandwidth to send music as video, though 
having the artist and title on-screen can be handy. The rarely-changing video 
can be compressed down to almost nothing of course.

FM tuner support would be nice of course, but there are a lot of music 
selections available to a current Myth system. 

I don't know if any of the current FM tuners available on-board TV capture 
cards support the RDS system, but that would be nice as well.

Some FM stations have online sites that give artist and title of the 
currently-playing selection, I wonder if there might be some way to grab that 
info.

Support for Sirius receivers might also be a good idea, I have no idea how 
hard that might be to implement, or how many people have such receivers other 
than in their vehicles.