I live in Italy (north-east). I don't know if it was just a bad coincidence or a bad support by Pinnacle for the Italian TV frequencies, but a year ago (before getting the AverTV USB 2.0 Plus) I tried a Pinnacle card (I don't remember the model now) but it could not catch any channel (and I was still using Windows at that time, so there were no issues for the driver availability). -- Marco Di Fresco http://marcodifresco.interfree.it/default.html On Wed, 2008-01-23 at 12:16 -0800, John Massengale wrote: > What country are you in? If you are in the United States, I would > recommend the Pinnacle 800i. The tuner on it will pick up over the air > digital stations better than any other card I have tried. > > 2008/1/23 Marco Di Fresco <marco.difresco@xxxxxxxxx>: > On Mon, 2008-01-21 at 21:05 +0100, Carsten Aulbert wrote: > > [CUT] > > My only analogue TV-card experience is with the Hauppauge > PVR-350 which > > is a very good card and the ivtv drivers are mature. > > I will take this in consideration. > > > If you have a DVB-T broadcast antenna relatively close-by > then a Nova > > T500 should work fine. If you scan this mailing list you > will find the > > this card might be problematic in bad weather conditions and > or if the > > reception is bad in general. I'm living about 1.5km away > from the > > sender, so I think I cannot comment on that. > > I don't have a broadcast antenna on sight so I guess it is > better to > exclude this product. > > On Tue, 2008-01-22 at 10:01 +1100, Robin Rainton wrote: > > Carsten Aulbert wrote: > > > Look at the linux-dvb Wiki and look if the card of your > choise is listed there. > > > > > Although be aware that this is no guarantee. I recently > purchased an MSI > > TV @ Anywhere which was listed in the Wiki, only to find MSI > had changed > > a few things and the card was now V1.1. Eventually I've > managed to get > > this working (see mails on this list about that) but it's > not stable as yet. > > That is another thing to keep in mind. > > Thank you both for the suggestions. > > As I said on my original post, my priority is to get at least > the > analog signal so I'll start to search around based on those > suggestions. If by any chance someone has any suggestion for > cards that > support the digital signal, I'll be glad to hear them. :-) > > Thank you again for the suggestion. > > -- > > > Marco Di Fresco > http://marcodifresco.interfree.it/default.html > > _______________________________________________ > linux-dvb mailing list > linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx > http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb >
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