[mythtv-users] suggested hardware?

[Chris Petersen]

> Chris, be careful when buying hauppage hardware. WinTV cards are now
> using the Conexant CX21881 chip, which is unsupported un Linux. There's
> a work in progress at http://bytesex.org/cx88 however it's in alpha
> state and it doesn't fully support the card.

well, if I get a hauppage card, it'll be a pvr-250.  but since my old
pctv pro seems to work, I'll stick with this until I have some more
money saved up.

> Last week I innocently bought a WinTV GO to find later that it was not
> supported. I worked on it for a week, but just got black and white
> signal, not very sharp, so I gave up and returned it.

lame.  at least you could return it.

-Chris