On 8/21/06, Gavin McCullagh <gmccullagh at gmail.com> wrote:
> in case anyone's looking for a cheap tv tuner card, Peats on Parnell Street
> are currently selling a Pinnacle card which uses the SAA7134 chip. It's
> Eur20 and works out of the box with any recent linux kernel. Admittedly it
> doesn't do mpeg encoding but for Eur20 you can't complain.
For further reference the Terratec [1] ones (sold by Pixmania.co.uk
but not only) and the Mercury also (sold in Maplins) [2] also use the
same chipset, they do cost about 50 euros but for that price they also
include S-VIDEO in and more.
[1] http://makeashorterlink.com/?R2DF6399D
[2] http://makeashorterlink.com/?W1EF2699D
Steph
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