Found Pinnacle PCTV200e DVB USB device from local computer store, and paid 40e w/o box.

Ok, then why use this "product"? You may test Cypress USB uC with this product. Suitable as development platform - possibly with throwing tuner and mpeg decoder out (removing connections).

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Writing currently (20060410) kernel driver for this device.
Status:

• Collected proper documentation for
  • Microtune MT2060 (tuner)
  • Zarlink MT352 (demodulator)
• Constructed proper (pedantic) header files for chips.
• Constructed driver body.
• Open things
  • Pinnacle USB protocol
    20060418: Tested different methods to use directly or encapsulated i2c commands. The only solution seems to be usb analyzator.
    20060426: Pinnacle has left possible to DL their firmware directly using USB, so constructed driver body to debug print it out as intel hex format, using grep and sed finetuned it, and then used 8051 disassembler (d52), and got the functionality of the firmware.