[NTLUG:Discuss] RE: HDTV card for Linux

[Kyle Davenport]

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Sorry I was out of the office for all the HDTV discussion.

Lance Simmons wrote:
> By the way, so far as I can tell there are no hdtv cards that can deal
> with cable or satellite.  Those are already encrypted at the source.  If
> I understand correctly, it's only terrestrial hdtv signals that will
> remain compatible with legacy devices.

In fact there is a cable hdtv card.  See the thread at
http://www.pchdtv.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=195

The pcHDTV folks have just updated their website to announce a 2nd
generation card:
> The pcHDTV^(TM) HD-3000 Hi Definition Television Card is the next
generation digital television
> card to be produced especially for the Linux video hobbyist market.
Shipped with the open source
> multimedia player, Xine, the card provides a ATSC stream to the Xine
mpeg2 decoder for playback
> and can be used with MythTV. Priced at only $189.89 - we expect to begin
taking pre-orders
> September 15th.

Sadly, still no QAM...

Kyle

P.S. Another setback to the linux htpc came last week when the Blu-Ray DVD
committee settled on MICROS~1's proprietary codec.   I also mentioned more
laws were coming outlawing open-source; I had in mind the proprosals to
prohibit software radio, ie, stopping the GNU Radio project, which has
already demonstrated hdtv reception.