Clayton wrote:
"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.
GNU radio looks very interesting ( http://gnuradio.org/trac and
http://www.ettus.com/ for an implementation of the hardware-- the
schematics are freely available though, naturally). It's theoretically
capable of usefully receiving any radio transmission between 50Hz and
2.9GHz (there are about ten bands each requiring a module), and US HDTV
has been decoded from it, so it could make a *very* interesting hobby
project to get it working with a local flavour of DVB-T at HDTV
resolution. Not for the faint of heart, and certainly not Plug and Play :-)
Russell Jones
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