[mythtv-users] Any PCI Express DVB-T Dual Tuner Cards out there and working yet?
Another Sillyname
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Tue Sep 29 02:21:54 UTC 2009
2009/9/28 Simon Hobson <linux at thehobsons.co.uk>:
> Another Sillyname wrote:
>
>> > If they try to move DVB-T to T2 in the UK anytime soon there will be an
>>>
>>> almighty stink, seeing as how they are still trying to get people to
>>> move to
>>
>> > DVB-T in the first place, and that isn't due to be completed until
>> 2012.
>
>
>> Your assuming that they'll turn off DVB-T, they won't, instead certain
>> Mux's for HD will be DVB-T2. So no stink or indeed issues, it just
>> means if you want HD you'll need a new box, your current box will
>> continue to to receive the existing channel set.
>
> I'm waiting for the brown stuff to hit the fan when thousands of people find
> that their expensive "HD Ready with integrated Freeview" TV's won't show HD
> when it comes along. Just over 5 weeks now, then the fun starts ;-)
>
> <rant mode>Locally (I'm in the Granada region due for switchover next month)
> one of the local engineering institutions had someone speak about the
> switchover (I think they might have been from DigitalUK). I raised the
> question of all this "HD Ready" kit that won't do HD, and the person doing
> the presentation simply didn't see an issue, and besides "we're only
> responsible for getting people on a basic service". To say I thought that
> was a short sighted attitude would be an understatement ! It has to be said
> that I am not at all surprised - the whole process has been a complete
> disorganised mess. If they'd actually thought ahead and planned for this
> then they'd have mandated integrated receivers several years ago and the
> majority of people would have got them by now by natural replacement - but
> no, they allowed analogue only sets to be sold right up to 12 months before
> switchover.</rant mode>
>
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To answer my own original question......
I did a bit of further research and the Hauppauge HVR-2200 now seems
to be supported.
http://www.kernellabs.com/blog/?cat=3
As will any SAA7164 card, thanks to Steven Toth
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