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^so for recording,we need internal tuner.and what is this digital/analog tuner
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Not exactly True. There are mainly Two kinds of Tv Tuners.
1. Internal
2. External
The external ones can be further classified into 2 groups. One that works with the use of your CPU and ones that don't. The ones that don't just use your monitor so basically you don't need your CPU to watch TV since all you need to do is power on your monitor.. The other external ones are like the USB Tv Tuners which are available and if I recall correctly that they can record programs. The USB ones are kind of hard to configure and theres only a few supported ones.
Internal ones allow you to record and there should be no problem. Phillips Saa713x (x = random number) is usually found to be kind of hard to configure. However there are a list of cards which will work. If I recall correctly Pinnacle uses this chipset and can be configured. From my knowledge Pixelview is the easiest to configure (you might want to check about this a bit though) this card uses the bt878 modules and I even recall that someone said it was Plug and Play but that was in Mandriva 2008. With minor adjustments you should be able to get it to run in Ubuntu.