i'm thinking about wandering out today and picking up a USB TV tuner to play with (no experience with those yet), and a friend suggested a combination of the hauppauge WinTV-HVR 950 and the xawtv app. any thoughts on that? reasons to avoid that particular combo? alternative recommendations? thanks. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry: Have classroom, will lecture. http://crashcourse.ca Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA ========================================================================