There is now a tv tuner card made specifically for Linux. Here is a quote from the website:

"The pcHDTVTM HD-2000 Hi Definition Television Card is the first digital television card to be produced especially for the Linux video hobbyist market. Shipped with the open source multimedia player Xine, the card provides a ATSC stream to the Xine mpeg2 decoder and playback."

I also love this quote:

"Currently the HD-2000 is NOT Microsoft compatible and is NOT supported in Windows 98TM, Windows 2000TM or Windows XPTM ."

It says it requires RedHat, but I bet it works with just about any version of Linux.

Look here.

LOL .. ATI.. Thats unbelievable cool.

I have a Skystar2 with a B2C2 Flexcop Chip, i can tune to the the Astra HDTV Broadcast, and it looks amazing. my only problem is that "buffering" stuff.
Actually i dont know where to set the buffer higher, but on a Thred at LinuxTv someone sad that this is xine-DVB related.
Howevere, it loosk ok for few secs, then it freezes, and all the time there is buffering and no stabile pickture just partially stabile pickture.
Fedora Core2, latest xine.

any workaround for the HDTV xine Buffer / Buffering problem ?

If you have any interest in using HDTV on your Linux box, there was an interesting discussion about this on Slashdot recently. -- J.W.

Surprising what old stuff a search turns up ;-)

Just to set the record straight, even from just glancing at it I can tell you that it looks an awful lot like a LifeView TV Tuner card originally built for windows but that also happily runs on Linux. A Philips analogue tuner & Zoran chip stand out even from that angled photo.