I remember Leo Laporte of "the Screensavers" fame, mentioning something about HDTV for free on Linux on that show. By the way, Leo Laporte has a book in libraries. There *might* be mention of it, I don't know. I remember the guys on the Screensavers were favorable and knowledgeable on Linux and open source. I miss that show. It was the best thing on that channel, now called "G4" for games. On Wednesday 14 February 2007 19:31, Mike McMullin wrote:

On Wed, 2007-02-14 at 10:17 -0500, jfweber@gilweber.com wrote:

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On Wed February 14 2007 9:25 am, JB scratched these words onto a coconut

shell, hoping for an answer:

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On Wednesday 14 February 2007 06:35, Clayton wrote:

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"The HD-5500 is a HDTV tuner card, that recieves free over the high-def broadcasts, as well as unencrypted QAM through your local cable provider. The included xine-hd program allows for the user to watch HDTV in a window. Screenshots are available to see what the card can do. This card is available only for Linux."

http://lunapark6.com/?p=2992

Nice. shame it's NTSC and ATSC only though. I was all ready to buy one... and then realized... no PAL, No DVB-S, C, or T... so those of us who live outside of the US, Canada, South Korea, Argentina, and Mexico are out of luck with this particular card.

We're out of luck here in the states too if one can't get cable out in the woods :-(

Depends, can you get "regular" thru the air telly from your local stations? Newsweek had a story about folks being able to get their local stations HD broadcasts w/ "rabbit ears" type antennae .

That has thrown a monkey wrench into the local folks plans to charge "plenty money" for those broadcasts.. but it seems you don't need anything else.

Wish I could remember the cite. But, it was in the dead tree version , last week or the one before. ( I read it at the hairdresser's ) There might be something on their website. ( Newsweek)

Better than a cite. My brother picked up on of those HD antennas and was showing me the diff between the cable feed and the antenna feed.

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