So, my blog has been pretty quiet for the past four weeks in terms of the work I've been doing. I've been working on analog support for the HVR-950q every night and weekend since January 23rd.
For those who might be interested in trying it out and providing feedback, check out the following repository:
http://linuxtv.org/hg/~dheitmueller/hvr950q-analog/
If all goes well, the plan is to solicit feedback over the next week or two, and then get it merged into the mainline.
There are still some performance issues to be worked out in the xc5000 tuning, and the VBI support isn't implemented yet, but the code should be good enough for most users.