[mythtvnz] What DVB-T cards are people using in NZ?

[Richard]

Yeah, the samples places are just box shifters and the others only want to
deal in pallet and containers so finding out is hard, but I figure if I take
one of each off deal extreme then I should get lucky with some of them.
Thing is when you go to get more of anything they are always different thru
there.

I cant see any issues with USB thruput since they usually take the whole
transponder under windows since that's needed for BDA support apparently, so
the only issues will be if you have to use a hub vs root ports. Since there
are only 3 channels active so far, once multirec is sorted that should be 3
sticks needed, one per channel, but we shall see if that theory pans out I
guess.

-----Original Message-----
From: mythtvnz-bounces at lists.linuxnut.co.nz
[mailto:mythtvnz-bounces at lists.linuxnut.co.nz] On Behalf Of Greg Brackley
Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2008 9:13 PM
To: MythTV in NZ
Subject: Re: [mythtvnz] What DVB-T cards are people using in NZ?

> From: Richard
> Im also ordering some of the cheap and nasty USB sticks from china shortly

> to see how they go.

I'd potentially be keen to get in on that if possible. I am keen to get 
three or more dvb-t tuners in my backend machine, but I have run out of PCI 
slots.  I have tried buying a few cheap USB sticks from HK/China, but the 
sellers don't tend to know (or care) what chipset they use, and the ones I 
received have poor or no Linux support.

I would like to move to the latest mythtv with multirec over the next few
months, but wonder about bandwidth issues with USB devices with multirec. 
Does anyone have an idea how many recorders per device would be reasonable? 
How many recorders per USB bus?

How are other people looking to solve multiple (say 3-4) recorders? Getting
a motherboard with more PCI slots doesn't seem to be viable. I don't want to
run another backend computer, and the current one is reasonably full.  I
also have limited USB ports/buses (old Intel 6300ESB chipset).

Greg