[mythtvnz] Linux compatible PCI & USB DVB-T

[Steven Ellis]

On Mon, December 3, 2007 12:12 pm, Greg Brackley wrote:
>
>
>>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.
>

I have been using one of these which works well -
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/94486

I also have a Hauppauge HVR-900 hybrid USB which works, but tends to break
other DVB and v4l devices.

Steve

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