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punky · 19-07-2005, 16:43

I think this is an oddity in the hardware world. Virtually all PCI TV cards have a shared chipset core, I think its called BT8** like BT875. Support for this has long been established.

Actually a cheap card probably helps here, if it was an expensive fancy one, with a custom chipset that wasn't BT8** compatible, then you'd be out of luck.

19-07-2005, 16:43	#3
punky Inactive Join Date: Jun 2003 Age: 45 Posts: 14,750	Re: In praise of Linux (and, er, PC World....) I think this is an oddity in the hardware world. Virtually all PCI TV cards have a shared chipset core, I think its called BT8 like BT875. Support for this has long been established. Actually a cheap card probably helps here, if it was an expensive fancy one, with a custom chipset that wasn't BT8 compatible, then you'd be out of luck.