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When I specify TRY TO, I'm referring to the fact that while it supports many popular TV tuner cards, it of course cannot support all of them. In addition, there are some really nice such devices which have likely come so far from yours you may wish to invest in something different when you learn what all your options are.

I especially want to take the time to warn you not to be misled by the name into installing MythBuntu. It is not what it sounds like. it is not a package for Ubuntu, but rather it is an all in one pre-integrated tv/tuner/dvr package preinstalled into Ubuntu. In some ways it is ideal for people who want everything to work without having to learn as much about Ubuntu, but if you are on this site, the odds are you don't need it. Of course if you have a couple spare hard drives laying around you can switch between for best result, you can try both. I tried five hard drives when I was first getting started.

A little more about MythTV. It started out as a project to merely make a TV/DVR program for Linux because while many such cards existed, there simply wasn't such a thing as a tv card package for linux and that simply would not do. The grandness of the scale of its features was never imagined at first, but with lots of interest, support and imagination it spread into one of the most fantastic programs I've ever read about. It really deserves to be its own standalone operating system so I really understand why the mythbuntu version came into being.