On Monday 07 March 2005 13:19, Nigel Metheringham wrote: > I'm looking at building myself a Myth box. I'm aiming to have a couple > of DVB-T cards in there as the main sources, and probably another > analogue input card (we have a Sky box so its likely to be hooked to > there with maybe a short term attachment to a VCR whilst any required > tapes are transcoded). > > The analogue card seems to be pretty much a no-brainer - Hauppauge PVR- > [23]30. > > I'd like recommendations on DVB-T cards that work well with Myth for > UK/Freeview service. I'm aware of:- > * Hauppauge NOVA-T PCI cards (look like these are around £60) > * Pinnacle Mediacenter 300i (also has analogue in but presumably > without MPEG encoding - this would save me a card slot). What > appears to be an OEM version of this can be found for under £60. > * Avermedia DVB-T (has a svideo in as well - not sure what that > can do). Again around £60. > * Vision Plus Digital TV PCI Tuner Card - looks like this is > around £50 > > Any comments on best or cards worth avoiding would be very helpful. > > I'm initially looking at getting just one to trial in my existing box - > basically its to persuade the wife to go with this :-) > Working out the final hardware spec of the final box comes later. > > Cheers > Nigel.
I'm happily using a Nova-T. Patching the driver for the new silver remote was the only extra thing I had to do. -- Rob _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users