[mythtv-users] Having Trouble Finding The Right TV Capture Card

[Tom Purl]

I've been looking at the hardware section of the wiki for an hour now,
but I'm still having problems.  Any help that anyone can give me would
be greatly appreciated.

I have been using the PVR-150 with analog cable (in the US) for a
couple of years now and have been very happy.  However,  I'm going to
be ditching cable soon and switching to antenna-only TV soon.  I don't
think that the PVR-150 support ATSC, so I need a new card.

Here are my requirements:

* USB or PCI (NOT PCI-E) interface
* ATSC tuner
* Hardware-based encoder
  * My computer has a 1.8 Ghz Sempron processor, 512 MB of RAM, and a
9-year-old Riva TNT2 video card.  I therefore don't believe that I can
get by with a software-based encoder.
* Very solid LinuxTV and MythTV support.

I know, a lot of you are going to tell me to RTFM (W for wiki?), but I
did and didn't see one that fit all of these requirements.  I found a
few ATSC cards with hardware-based encoders, but they have a PCI-E
interface.  I found a few cards that meet all of my hardware
requirements, but I have never heard of the manufacturer.  A few years
ago, it seemed that the only cards that "just worked" were made by
Haupphauge.  Is that still true?

Is anyone else out there using a similar hardware configuration?  If
so, then what card works for you?

Thanks in advance!

Tom Purl