[Novalug] HDTV for Linux

Kenneth A. Kauffman kkauffman at headfog.com
Wed Jan 3 14:32:19 EST 2007


If anyone is interesting in getting these cards.  Let me know.  I'm
interested in helping put a group buy together.  Contact me directly at my
E-mail address, which should be listed.

> If the website you speak of is www.pchdtv.com then I can vouch for them
> as having given excellent service.
>
> I organized a group purchase of their older HD-3000 cards back in May of
> 2005 in CALUG.  Jack Keliher (one of the guys who started the company)
> was prompt in answering questions and very helpful in setting up a bulk
> discount for the LUG (we ended up purchasing 16-20 cards from them).
>
> I personally purchased 2 HD-3000 cards from them which have both worked
> fine.  I'm currently in the process of rebuilding a new MythTV Box with
> them as a dual tuner HDTV system.  Once I get the IR receiver working I
> should be good to go (purchased from www.home-electro.com).
>
> Anyways, yes a spelling error isn't a great thing, but they are really
> in this business to support HDTV on Linux.
>
> Cheers,
> David
>
> PS.  Currently none of their products implement the broadcast flag as it
> is not "yet" mandated by the FCC.
>
>
> On Wed, 2007-01-03 at 11:03 -0800, b b wrote:
>> - i'd love to hear from anyone on the list who has
>> purchased this card...
>>
>> - unfortunately, the web site looks suspect, and when
>> i see stuff like:
>>
>> "**** Your order normally ships with in 1 to 3
>> bussness days **** "
>>
>> on a checkout page prior to asking for CC info, the
>> little hairs start standing up on the back of my
>> head...
>>
>> :-)
>>
>> --- Ken Kauffman <kkauffman at headfog.com> wrote:
>>
>> > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
>> > Hash: SHA1
>> >
>> >
>> http://applications.linux.com/article.pl?sid=06/12/19/1627229&from=rss
>> >
>> > Many probably subscribe to the feed, but for those
>> > that do not.  This
>> > looks like a cool find.
>
> --
> David Cafaro <dac at cafaro.net>
>
>





More information about the Novalug mailing list