TV Tuner for Digital Broadcast Recommendation ?

[R. G. Newbury]

> I am wondering if anyone could give recommendation for TV tuner that would
> work with Fedora 12 and can get the over-the-air digital broadcast in the U.S.
> I don't need any fancy feature just the basic, in fact, the more inexpensive
> the better.
>
> Any recommendation ?
> I've looked around but haven't found anything useful / definite

Lots of possibilities. Hauppauge alone makes about 5 different tuners, 
USB, PCI-E or PCI. A HVR950 is about $100.00 and is supported by the v4l 
project. Works fine. I have one running here.

Another choice the the HDHomeRun from Silicon Dust. Comes in 2 tuner or 
single tuner versions. It is an external box and talks to your computer 
over the network.

If you need more information, there are a large number of pages on the 
mythwiki at:  http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Category:Video_capture_cards

describing the pros and cons of a large number of video cards, all of 
which work under at least mythtv. By their nature that also means that 
they will probably work with other front ends: kaffeine, xine, vlc etc.
G.

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