Hauppauge's WinTV Nova-T is a PCI card for receiving digital terrestrial television broadcasts (DVB-T), eg the UK's Freeview service. This is a guide to using the card in Linux. Apparently there is more than one type of card with the same model name. This guide is for what I believe is unfortunately no longer the current version of the card, supplied with a grey remote control and based on saa7146 and tda10045 chips. Some of the information here should also be useful for other cards though. Linux's lspci command should identify at least one of the chips for you if you're not sure. This is often referred to as a "Budget" card because of the lack of a built-in MPEG decoder, while models with MPEG decoders are often refered to as "full-featured" (sometimes abbreviated to FF in technical circles).