Thanks go to the following people for patches and contributions:

Michael Hunold <m.hunold@gmx.de>
  for the initial saa7146 driver and it's recent overhaul

Christian Theiss
  for his work onm the initial LinuxDVB driver

Marcus Metzler <mocm@metzlerbros.de>
Ralph Metzler <rjkm@metzlerbros.de>
  for their continous work on the DVB driver for Convergence Integrated Media

Michael Holzt <kju@debian.org>
  for his contributions to the dvb-net driver

Diego Picciani <d.picciani@novacomp.it>
  for CyberLogin for Linux which allows logging onto EON
  (in case you are wondering where CyberLogin is, EON changed its login 
  procedure and CyberLogin is no longer used.)

Martin Schaller <martin@smurf.franken.de>
  for patching the cable card decoder driver

Klaus Schmidinger <Klaus.Schmidinger@cadsoft.de>
  for various fixes regarding tuning, OSD and CI stuff and his work on VDR

Steve Brown <sbrown@cortland.com>
  for his AFC kernel thread

Christoph Martin <martin@uni-mainz.de>
  for his LIRC infrared handler

Andreas Oberritter <andreas@oberritter.de>
Florian Schirmer <jolt@tuxbox.org>
...and all the other dBox2 people <??>
  for many bugfixes in the generic DVB Core and their work on the 
  dBox2 port of the DVB driver