[mythtv-users] TV-card only (with good quality)?

[Emmanuel Allaud]

Jarod C. Wilson wrote:

> On Tuesday, Sep 30, 2003, at 15:50 US/Pacific, Emmanuel Allaud wrote:
>
>>   Hi all,
>> I have browsed the archives of this list (OK I did not spend hours 
>> doing that but I was not able to find a good advice on a good quality 
>> TV-card; I don't really care about recording other video sources, but 
>> I do care about the picture quality for TV. I found that PVR-xxx are 
>> a bit overkill for my needs (and too expensive also).
>> Have you got any good (or bad experience that you can share here to 
>> enlighten me before I buy a crappy card?
>
>
> The AVerTV Studio card sucks, the new Pinnacle PCTV Rave (not sure 
> about other Pinnacle cards) have a new, unsupported tuner, the new 
> WinTV-Go (as well as offerings from MSI and Asus, along with ATI's new 
> TV Wonder Pro) use the cx88 chipset instead of the bt8x8, and don't 
> work particularly well under Linux yet. From what I gather, the best 
> bt8x8-based cards are the ATI TV Wonder (not the VE or the Pro) and 
> the Leadtek Winfast TV Deluxe XP (or something like that).

Thank you very much for your reply. I will investigate the Leadtek card 
further (I already thought of it).
BTW is that easy to have 2 such cards (one for live TV and one for 
recording)?
Bye
Manu