From: "Klaus Schmidinger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Robert Schlabbach wrote: > > Full-featured cards are "legacy hardware", they have no future. > > But they are very widely used _now_, and will be as long as they > physically live. I don't think that people are going to throw away their > full featured cards just because some people say "they have no future"...
Noone said that anyone should throw anything away. I clearly stated the future-looking development should be focused on _current_ technologies. E.g. if you have to make a "hack" to expand function to other cards, make that hack for the _legacy_ cards, not for current technology. > I'd really like to see a new, full featured, DVB card come onto the > market that does away with all the shortcomings of the TT design, > has a better OSD and digital audio output. If such a new card > would work with the LinuxDVB driver I'd by several of them in a > heartbeat. Unfortunately, the hardware manufacturers don't seem > to like useful solutions... :-( They don't like making products that don't sell. STB cards are too expensive and to inflexible. A modern STB (aka "full-featured") card would have to feature: - HDTV MPEG-2 hardware decoding - H.264/AVC hardware decoding - WMV9 HD hardware decoding - DVI/HDMI/HDCP and YbPbCr video outputs - Dolby AC-3 hardware decoding - optical audio outputs - common interface Personally, I wouldn't want to pay for all this junk. Why? Because I already _have_ paid for most of it: I have a graphics card with DVI and MPEG-2 hardware decoding support, a sound card with S/PDIF, and a CPU with well enough power to handle the other stuff in software. All I need is a pure receiver card which gets me the digital data stream, and maybe a common interface slot or two to decrypt pay-TV channels. Why should I pay for any further capabilities, which I already have? Regards, -- Robert Schlabbach e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Berlin, Germany -- Info: To unsubscribe send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe linux-dvb" as subject.
