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From: Josef El-Rayes <j.el-rayes@daemon.li>
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Szilveszter Adam <sziszi@bsd.hu> wrote:
>  Hm I am not sure about this part... at least in my part of the world,
>  (Central Europe) it is becoming harder to find a Brooktree based TV
>  card, revent models use a Philips chipset which has better picture
>  quality but is AFAIK not supported by FreeBSD... so you have to be extra
>  careful when buying.

of course, you should always take a look whether the
hardware really is supported before buying it.

i am from central europe too, i had no problem
buying a brooktree card as the whole hauppauge collection,
seems to be very popular in computer stores.

-josef