Ant wrote:
On 10/2/2013 11:09 AM PT, Hot-Text typed:

"David H. Lipman" wrote in message
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From: "Ant"
Hello.
I think one of my old Air2PC-ATSC-PCI HDTV tuner cards, from 2005,
died earlier today since it can't seem to get any signals from
any antenna. My other one is still fine.
Does anyone know what's a good PCIE (PCI slots are hard to find in
newer motherboards these days) HDTV tuner card to get? It
needs to be compatible with both Windows XP+ (use DVB Viewers) and
Linux (Debian stable).
Thank you in advance.
Hauppauge makes quality Internal and External devices.
http://www.hauppauge.com/

I have the hauppauge usb WebTv tuner
that come out for windows 98

Aren't USB(2) too slow and unreliable for serious HTPC/media center users?

USB2 is fast enough.

For ATSC, the MPEG2 stream of packets is 19.39Mbit/sec which
is 2.4MB/sec. USB2 when used for mass storage is 30MB/sec.

For NTSC, if the capture chip was "dumb" and no compression
was used, that would be a higher rate. Perhaps 20MB/sec from
a BT878 for example. And that would still fit in a USB2 pipe.
I don't think the capture mode captures simple RGB 24 bit color,
and the capture mode uses something a bit more economical than that.
I can't find any details on it.

Paul