HDTV via GNU Radio
NortonDC writes "High Definition TV has been successfully captured in its native data stream from an over the air broadcast by a software defined radio that is Free and open source from the GNU Software Defined Radio project."
"Add a $50 FPGA to do the interfacing to the PCI bus"
PCI interfaces aren't exactly simple. It could take a very long time to write your own pci interface from scratch. I haven't been to opencores in a while, but it looks like their PCI core is done. Has anyone tried to use it?