On Fri, 9 May 2003, Michel Bardiaux wrote: > > We had the same unpleasant surprise. It is particularly risky to buy > now, because the boxes are *exactly* identical, including a URL for > drivers - for the BT878 of course. And Hauppauge customer support has > been rather uncooperative. > [...] > It seems purchasing a TV card is the coming casino game. You can *never* > be sure a model will work, even supposedly identical to a card you > yourself already have working! > Well, SAA7134-based cards have been around for a bit longer, so *hopefully* getting it to work is easier. That wasn't the case when I first got my FlyVideo2000 over a year ago. The driver has seen lots of improvements in the year's time since then. I think the next hurdle would be TV capture cards with MPEG-1/2 encoders..... T.C. ---- Wan Tat Chee (Lecturer) School of Computer Science, Univ. Science Malaysia, 11800 Minden, Penang, Malaysia. Rm.625 Ofc Ph: +604 653-3888 x 3617 NRG Lab Admin: +604 659-4757 Rm.601-E Ofc Ph: +604 653-4396 Internet: tcwan@xxxxxxxxx Web: http://nrg.cs.usm.my/~tcwan GPG Key : http://nrg.cs.usm.my/~tcwan/tcw_gpg-20030322.asc F'print : DCF2 B9B2 FA4D 1208 AD59 14CA 9A8F F54D B2C4 63C7
