[Lancaster] My experience with MythTV

[Ken Hough]

On Tuesday 10 February 2009 09:00:00 Martyn Welch wrote:

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> 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?


> 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?


Ken hough



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