I have a Pinnacle PCTV HD 800i card and I decided to give OTA ATSC (in the US) a try. I know that reception is not a problem as the HDTV tunes the channels directly from the antenna fine. I followed the instructions on the wiki (<a href="http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Pinnacle_PCTV_HD_Card_%28800i%29">http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Pinnacle_PCTV_HD_Card_(800i)</a>), except I didn't install the linuxtv drivers, because there comments indicating that it worked out of the box with Ubuntu 8.10. Running dmesg indicates that the firmware and drivers are loaded for the card. I add the card in mythtv setup as a DVB card. It shows up as a Samsung, but from my searches others have indicated this is how it showed up for them. In other threads I followed the suggestions and tried going into the "recording options" when I add the card and checking the item about using the card on demand only and unchecking the EIT option. I also saw somewhere the suggestion to bump the signal timeout up to 3250 from 3000. However, when I do a full scan I still get zero signal and snr and no channels will tune in. I have tested the analog portion by adding the card as a V4L card and I was able to tune analog channels. I have removed that configuration because I know that trying to use both the analog and digital portions of the card cause problems for some, and I am only interested in getting the digital OTA anyway. <br>
<br>I am currently running Mythbuntu 8.10 with the latest kernel 2.6.27-9-generic. Should I install the drivers from linuxtv? Are there other things I can try? I found several messages with individuals indicating they are using this card with great success, so I would love to know what I need to do to get it up and going. <br>