TV Tuner card (External, Internal)

[Jim Higson]

On Tuesday 13 July 2004 13:20, D. D. Brierton wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-07-13 at 12:11, Jim Higson wrote:
> > IME tvcards are very easy to use with Redhat/Fedora, since they have the
> > driver for the Bt878 chipset built into the kernel. If you can try to get
> > one on that chipset.
>
> I've been toying with the idea of getting a TV card for my laptop. As I
> obviously don't have free PCI slots what's the best way to go? USB?
> PCMCIA? FireWire? Old-fashioned serial port?
>
> TIA.
>
> Best, Darren

IME the chipset's more important than how you connect it. I'd probably go for 
USB in your case, because it's likely to be cheaper and can be plugged in/out 
at will.