Re: [tlug] Question regarding TV Card for Linux;

[CL <az.4tlug@example.com>]

Dave M G wrote:
> Bjoern,
>
> I asked about this a while back as well. I can't find the thread right
> now, but the bottom line is that Japanese digital signals have
> proprietary encoding, and there are no PC cards licensed to carry their
> signal. At least not right now, and not anything supported in Linux for
> the foreseeable future.
>
> I don't know about satellite connections, though.
>
> I have a Mythbuntu machine with a Hauppauge PVR-150 card in it, which
> will become useless in 2011 when all broadcasts go digital. So I'm also
> interested in developments in how to get digital signal on a Linux machine.

We have an IO Data Chideji converter for our "spare" analogue set.  It 
is supposed to work as a Chideji / BS / CS frontend for any analogue TV 
as well as being able to act as the tuner for a computer monitor / 
speakers setup.  I got it free from one of the Eigojin at my wife's 
school who was headed home, but I have seen them for as little as Yen 
6,800 in local chirashi and Yen 4,000 at Hard Off in Mito.

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CL