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Old 20-April-07, 05:51 PM   #1 (permalink)
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San Jose Mercury News | San Jose Shopping - Computers & Electronics - Fry's Electronics
Ignore the rebate since it probably will not work. Keeping it in mind, is it a good card for the price? I plan to use it with Gentoo so ignore any supplied software.
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Old 20-April-07, 06:23 PM   #2 (permalink)
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read the reviews at newegg...

it doesnt have a hardware encoder built into it

Newegg.com - KWORLD ATSC-110 PCI Interface Digital / Analog HDTV Tuner - Retail

stick with somthing like this:

Newegg.com - Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-150 MCE PCI Interface 1042 Tuner Card - Retail
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Old 20-April-07, 07:23 PM   #3 (permalink)
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The PVR-150 does not support HDTV.
Here's a reference chart: ATSC PCI Cards - LinuxTVWiki .
I'm sure the ATSC-110 includes a hardware DSP since it requires firmware and ATSC takes a very fast computer to demodulate. (Some programmers I know actually tried it. It took a small supercomputer with 8 Britney CPUs and a R410a cooling system to do it - not exactly your everyday PC!) As for a MPEG decoder, it's unnecessary since modern video cards have one built in.
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Old 22-April-07, 01:21 AM   #4 (permalink)
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I just got the card working and there is definitely an onboard DSP.
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