TV Tuner Cards + MythTV

[MattGSX]

So I figured for the price of an analog-digital converter box for my TV, I could instead just get a TV tuner card to install on my laptop and setup MythTV, as I don't have cable and have no immediate plans to get it. Does anyone know a decent USB-based card that won't require an external antenna that has Linux drivers available? I was thinking about the eVGA inDTube USB 2.0 ATSC/NTSC, but I'm questioning whether a USB-stick like this will be strong enough without an external antenna.

Any thoughts?

[SpaceBison]

If you plan on receiving an over the air signal, then you will defiantly need an antenna. I've noticed that digital signals are somewhat of a bitch to receive and they don't degrade gracefully like the analog ones did.

There's a couple sticks listed on this page. I had one of the pinacle ones listed but I never got it to work right or more likely I didn't know what the hell I was doing but that was two years ago and I haven't had time to mess with it again. So your mileage may vary. I'd ask on their forums. Good luck.

http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Category:Video_capture_cards

[247electrical]

Thanks a lot for the solution as i was facing the same problems.