I recently picked up a pcHDTV HD-5500 card for my MythTV system and have started experimenting with OTA broadcast HDTV streams. Very cool to pull down Austin City Limits in HDTV – man I love PBS.
Set up with MythTV was a snap – getting the antenna pointed in the right direction is a little more tricky. I’m now in the market for a compact external antenna in case anyone wants to gift me something.
I plan on building another MythTV backend for the basement with a new flat planel HDTV, and turning that into our own little theater. Maybe with a new Ubuntu Linux PC from Dell. What an accomplishment for the GNU/Linux operating system.
Useful links – http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Configuring_HDTV
