Good suggestions for a TV card?

[cmosse]

I'm about to buy a TV card for a Debian system, and I'm wondering if anyone has to share any good/bad experiences using VLC with particular cards?

Regards,
Kaius

[dionoea]

Hauppauge PVR 250 works great (we used to have them running 365 days per year ...)

[cmosse]

Thanks for the reply. I have to apologize, I should have stated my needs a more accurately..

What I need is a TV-card that works in DVB-T or DVB-C networks. These seem to be quite rare at the moment ( at least in Finland ). And the few that are on the market seem be loaded with bugs according to reviews I've found. Combined with the fact that *unix support is lagging quite a lot behind the windows support makes it even trickier..

Regards,
Kaius Perttilä

[dionoea]

well ... we now use hauppauge nova-t dvb-t cards (and dumped the PVRs ). These also run fine under linux debian (you just have to compile your own kernel and patch it with the patch from bytesex.org)

[cmosse]

Finally bought the card, ended up with a Terratec Cinergy 1200 DVB-C.
Works fine, even though installing the firmware on Debian wasn't that straightforward..
Could provide additional info is somebody is interested to try his luck with the same combination..