[FSUG-Bangalore] which TV tuner card works well on GNU Linux

[renuka prasad]

On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 11:06 PM, justin joseph <justinjoseph007 at gmail.com>wrote:

>
>
> On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 10:31 PM, Debayan Banerjee <debayanin at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Go for a pinnacle usb pluggable tv tuner stick. You will get it in sp
>> road and it is well supported on linux. Costs 2500. Will tell you the
>> exact model number in a while.
>>
>
> While buying from SP road it is better to go with a laptop and check out
> the hardware.
> Once I bought a Baffo (maybe wrong name) USB to Serial adaptor and later
> found
> it to not work because it wanted drivers(M$ support only), later I figured
> out that
> that there are duplicate low cost version of baffo without any chip(like
> the win modems)
> which need drivers to work with windows.  The hardware might look and be
> packed the
> same, but might be duplicate's and only some vendors will inform about them
> being
> cheap lookalikes(that works(on windows alone)).
>
>
yes true , it has happened with me in some other case , esp in SP road we
should be careful, I usually go to a vendor whom i know since 10 years ,
hope he wont cheat

thanks for your advice

>
>> On 7/2/10, renuka prasad <renukaprasadb at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Hi all
>> >
>> > Do any one has any experience of using USB TV Tuner card on GNU /Linux ,
>> > please share your experience about which model and if any specific
>> > configurations have to be done
>> >
>> > thanks in advance
>> >
>> > Renuka Prasad
>> >
>>
>> --
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>>
>> Debayan Banerjee
>> Software Engineer
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