[Lancaster] My experience with MythTV

[Martyn Welch]

Ken Hough wrote:
> On Tuesday 10 February 2009 09:00:00 Martyn Welch wrote:
> 
> <snip>
> 
>> 1) TV Card - I have a Hauppauge Nova-TD-500 (The "new" TD version not
>> the "old").
> 
> 
> How can one know which version is being offered?
> 

Info here:

http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Hauppauge_WinTV_Nova-T_500_PCI

Note the "UPDATE 10-27-2008". TBH, if you buy a new one, it should be OK.

> 
>> I wouldn't necessarily pick this card again if I was to 
>> start fresh, Linux support for the "TD" still seems a little ropey. The
>> advantage is that it has 2 tuners on one card, so I can record two
>> things at once with one card. Note that this card encodes the TV
>> broadcast to an MPEG stream. This is important as it saves a *lot* of
>> work for the CPU.
> 
> That sounds good!
> 
> Do you (or anyone else) have any suggestions for alternative cards with 
> similar specs?
> 

I'm afraid I don't.

Martyn