[mythtvnz] Linux compatible PCI & USB DVB-T

[Greg Brackley]

>I have the Leadtek TV1000T (~$115 or so retail, available easily in
> NZ, PCI).  It appears to work fine, the captures I did a few weeks ago
> were done using it.  Haven't used it since :)

Likewise, I have one in by MythTV backend and it seems to go ok (I could 
view the test recordings using Windows). It seems to go for a lot less in 
ozzie AU$45 [1], but the shipping for a single unit would offset that 
saving.

I'm quite keen to find a reasonable tuner at a reasonable price that doesn't 
use up PCI slots. With a couple of DVB-S cards, a DVB-T card, a digium 
telephony card, and a disk controller, my backend server is full.  Has 
anyone got a source of cheapish USB tuners, that have reasonable driver 
support (I would prefer the driver to be built into a standard kernel, but I 
would live with having to compile a module).

I'm trying to get hold of some EM2870/ZL10353 chipset, and MT2060 frontend 
USB DVB-T sticks but haven't succeeded yet. The small amount I have seen of 
these sticks shows me that there is no shielding around the frontend, and I 
wonder what the effect of that will be.

Greg.


[1] http://www.shopbot.com.au/p-32411.html
[2] http://linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/DVB-T_USB_Devices