Carlos Betancourt wrote:
El vie, 09-05-2003 a las 10:52, Michel Bardiaux escribió:
We have tested it successfully, on a debian-3 (woody), with updated
drivers. Quoting a colleague of mine:
[...]
Great! Thanks for the info.
I'm using Debian Sid, so it will work.
[...]
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.
I wrote Hauppage support and they told me that all WinTV products now
use the new chip (cx21881), only the WinTV Theather still uses the BT878
At the time (2 months ago?) we had that problem, they wrote to me that
the chipset depended on the country!
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!
Yes, it has been very hard to get the correct card. Do you know where in
Belgium can I reliably buy TV Cards.
My point was, you cant buy *reliably*, not in Belgium anyway (if we were
in the USA, I would say stick to LML, but importing LML products is not
an option, between taxes and S&H); and we will *never* be able to buy
reliably unless manufacturers start issuing Linux drivers themselves.
I've gone to FNAC, where they have
Hercules, Pinnacle and Hauppage, however they refuse to let me check the
chipset in advance. (I had to return the WinTV GO I bought there)
Do you know any good online belgian retailer?
I know of exell.be, but we have never used it.
We purchased our TV cards at microstar.be; that is their web site, but
we dont buy online, we go to their shop in LLN.
But let me repeat: even with the best retailer, if the supplier changes
the model without changing the box and no one knows about that, you're POL.
Thanks for your feedback!
Carlos
P.S. I checked peaktime.be and I was very impressed. Specially the
truetime software, the tvtimes service, and the fact that you are a
GNU/Linux shop (gnu emacs, linux, apache, python, Debian), as well as
the use of Eifell.
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