Compatible tv card.
 

I'm interested in running mythtv on my slackware box and was curious if there are any good tv cards anyone can suggest. From what i've read you get what you pay for so i'm not interested in anything real cheap i can spend upto about 150$ on one. As i'm new to tv stuff i'm not real sure which ones work better etc..

See what mythtv recommends.

I previously had kworld 115 on slackware 12 and 12.1. It worked well for ATSC. Bumped up to catalyst 8.6 and 8.7 while also putting card in a friends machine with same distribution. Couldn't get it to work with cable but never went back to catalyst 8.5 and try it. Have since learned 8.6 and 8.7 screw up myth. Info on web says the card doesn't encode/decode analog very well. The card in friends machine worked fine in winxp mc for cable. The kworld 115 price dropped a lot at newegg and they are now out of it. So...

I took a chance and got the hauppauge hr-1600. I did custom kernel (may not have needed to) to ensure the i2c stuff worked. The card is working for me with slackware 12.1 and myth 0.21. From the mythtv.org site, they state the card does not work for everyone. It is working for me, ATSC on gigabyte GA-MA78GM-S2H. I haven't tried ntsc and don't have cable.

I keep going back to Leadtek. It is a cheep card but has a good pitcher on even a 22" wide screen.
There is no setup. You just slide in in and it just works.
I'm using cable ntsc with TVtime.

Model # TV2000XP/EXPERT

DONT get a usb card as very very few of them have drivers. Avoid ADS like the plague

I've got a USB DTV card working in Slackware, but I concede that it took me a lot of time and several returns to find one that worked, eventhough I had a printed list of known working models. The main problem is that many manufacturers have the absolutely horrible practice of changing the internal components of their products while maintaining the product name. So let's say card "FooBar 2000" is supposed to work. You buy one, arrive home and it doesn't work. Surprise! The USB identifiers don't match because, starting the previous month, all the new "FooBar 2000" cards have totally different internal components.

By the way, it's a Pinnacle "PCTV Hybrid Pro stick" (also sold as model "330e"), and the drivers are out of the vanilla tree.