On Mon, 2006-10-02 at 18:04 -0700, maxim wexler wrote:
> Hi group,
>
> Do these things work very well? What's a good one? Is
> it gentoo-friendly.
if it's linux-friendly, it's gentoo-friendly :)
> I'll be using it with a Viewsonic 17" LCD with a
> digital connector and a ATI Radeon 256M vid card.
so long as it's a reasonable machine, you should be fine. I run
fullscreen TV on a 17in on a GeForce FX5200, and and athlon 1700 XP with
no worries.
> I saw one work back in 2000 and thought the picture
> quality quite poor. Have they improved much since
> then?
In my experience (I've only tried a couple of cards) the quality is
generally related to your signal - put up a good antennae and some
decent cabling, and you should be hunky dory!
However, I wouldn't be surprised if there was a card out there somewhere
that gave you a crap picture no matter what.
Look for reviews on linux sites - they should tell you how easy they are
to get working, and how well they work.
I personally like the COMPRO DTV-300 - it does digital terrestrial, and
analog in one card, and it's fairly cheap. Not much for hardware
encoding though. But that can easily be made up with a beefier system.
HTH,
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