I now have digital TV! Not using satellite. Australia now has a terrestrial digital feed. And BOY was it hard to get running under Linux!

It's nice having surround sound TV and high definition with wide screen. I had to buy a new aerial - so now I have a powered aerial. It's very imposing, I like it.

As for making the bugger run.. I had to load budget and tda1004x modules in Linux 2.6 - I had to have devfs with devfsd and I had to copy some windows .dll in to an /etc/dvb directory. Then once this is all done, you wait a bit for the card to figure out that it can see stuff and it will actually let you tune.

Here was the kicker, I needed the newest version of dvbstream, which debian didn't have - all older versions are incompatible and refuse to find the frontend device. But the sourceforge cvs account didn't work.

Thankfully my friend David had already gotten the source a week before. A copy off him and I was away! - Here's the next trick. No where can you find the frequencies and PID's for the channels. David had them, so I used his. There are lots of PID's for a frequency. Get them wrong adn you get no image or sound :) - All in all, under Linux it is not a pleasant experience to set it up - but an extremely pleasant experience once it is running!