Ubuntu Multimedia :: Dazed And Confused About Video?

But I am truly confused. I have searched the Multimedia & Video forum for some help about my TV stuff. I've found nothing I can apply to my system. I want to watch American ATSC tv, record on my hard drive and if possible schedule recording for another time. But I would take watching and recording alone. Recently, I asked, in another Ubuntu forum, if the drivers for what I think are necessary for my TV-card (AVermedia A188 'Duet' Duet for dual tuenrs on 1 card) are now in-built into the kernel. The reply was:

LGDT3305 and SAA7160

With the LG
/lib/modules/2.6.35-22-generic-pae/kernel/drivers/media/dvb/frontends/lgdt3305.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.35-22-generic-pae/kernel/drivers/media/dvb/frontends/lgdt330x.ko
With the Philips this was closest:
/lib/modules/2.6.35-22-generic-pae/kernel/drivers/media/video/saa7164/saa7164.ko
so, my AVermedia Duet should work?

I tried Me-TV and it said I had no DVB devices available. I tried TV Time and the "screen" flashes on screen and vanishes off-screen. I tried lspci | -vnn (or something I found in another post and they got some terminal output) and the terminal returned nothing for me. I tried to look at DMESG, and saw some stuff about the recently installed TV Time, but I cannot understand enough of it and won't post that long string of lines unless asked. I looked at the Video4Linux hardware section and I think that this AVermedia card, a pci-express device is working, although they don't specifically mention it. Only that SAA716x is working.

Reading some of the posts at Multimedia and Video, on a search for AVermedia, I see some people installing dvb-utils or some similarly named applet. That applet scans for digital tv signals and creates a list, which when added to some other existing file, allows some TV application to find the channels. I tried to install that and aptitude returned -no such program-.