[KLUG Members] Myth TV questions

[Michael Torian]

Hello,

 I attended the presentation on Myth TV at the end of last year and I am 
ready to make the jump.  I have two questions I was hoping someone could 
help me with. 

1. Is there a preferred Hauppauge card?  I have heard that some of them 
are not supported bu SUSE.  I am debating between the 350 and the 500.  
I am running a slightly older box and would like the Hauppauge card to 
do as much of the encoding/decoding as possible.

2. I have heard  that the Hauppauge card cannot capture all of the 
channels that I subscribe to, like HBO.  I seem to recall at the 
presentation hearing that I can use Myth TV and at least some of the 
Hauppauge cards as a complete Tivo replacement.

I am currently running SUSE 10 on an AMD Athlon XP 2000, 256 MB DDR, Ge 
force 400MX AGP card, 160GB HD.  Other that the PVR card, I am hoping to 
start with this configuration and I will increase Hardware as necessary.

Any assistance or links anyone could provide would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you.

Mike Torian