On Tue, 2008-06-24 at 20:23 -0500, Mitch Gore wrote:
> 
> 
> On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 6:57 PM, Brian C. Huffman <bhuffman@graze.net>
> wrote:
>         
>         On Tue, 2008-06-24 at 18:42 -0500, Mitch Gore wrote:
>         > Hi,
>         >
>         > I was thinking about buying this card but have read a little
>         bit about
>         > audio issues.  Do you really need to run the sound through
>         your
>         > soundcard line-in when viewing Digital TV?  Seems kinda
>         odd.  All it
>         > needs to do is dump the bits to the PCI Bus/HDD.
>         >
>         
>         
>         Nope - I own one and it works great.  No need to do anything
>         special
>         with the sound.  I'm using it to connect to an antenna and I'm
>         bringing
>         in all of the Philadelphia, PA stations in High Def.
>         
>         Brian
>         
>         _______________________________________________
> 
> It must just be for Analog that it needs your sound card.  
> 
> Thanks,
> Mitchell 
> 

Perhaps I'm misunderstanding, but I don't see why it would need to have
anything to do with the soundcard.  I am able to use the card to pick up
both analog and digital stations.  The input for the card is the full
signal - not just video or audio, so it shouldn't need any other
interaction.

-b