Recommendation for a (UK) FreeView Dongle?

[J. P. Gilliver (John)]

I'm thinking of getting a dongle for watching DTV (FreeView) on my XP
netbook - SD, not HD, though I obviously wouldn't _mind_ if it does HD.
(I think the processor would struggle though.)

My only real stipulation is that it presents the channels with the
correct LCNs (logical channel numbers), i. e. BBC1 on 1, BBC News on 80,
and so on, rather than allocating them in the order it finds them when
scanning. It doesn't have to do this with the software that comes with
it, provided there's some freeware (or fairly cheap) it'll work with. I
don't need any of the other features usually added - recording, multiple
tuners, etc. (some of which are properties of the software anyway),
though obviously I wouldn't say no to them.

So - any recommendations, both for dongles and - if necessary -
additional software? (XP, obviously.)

 

[J. P. Gilliver (John)]

I'm very pleased with my Hauppauge WinTV-Nova-T DVB-T USB decoder. It
works perfectly with Windows Media Centre on Vista and Windows 7,
though since you've got XP you wouldn't (as far as I know) be able to
take advantage of that. It came with its own proprietary software as
well, though I can't remember much about that because I chose to use
Media Centre instead so I removed the proprietary software. It is the
software rather than the decoder that determines the order of channels
and whether they are identified by the normal LCNs.

Thanks for that. So I need recommendations for suitable software, and
maybe warnings of any hardware that _doesn't_ work with that software,
both for XP. (Though actual recommendations - rather than the opposite -
would still be welcome.)
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J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf

I'm sometimes a bit bewildered by that, really - there are no young people in
it, there's no sex, there's no violence, no car chases and there's no action
and no vampires. - Colin Firth on the success of the film "The King's Speech".
Radio Times 10-16 September 2011