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, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Wed February 14 2007 9:25 am, JB scratched these words onto a coconut > > > > shell, hoping for an answer: > > > On Wednesday 14 February 2007 06:35, 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. > > > > > > 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. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
