You accept silently all the limitations of the av711x: a OSD that is far
from what you expect for a modern STB (the OSD is not even able to
display 8bit DVB subtitles correctly), no way to pass a high-bandwidth
stream to the host and process it there, no way to decode HDTV or even
MPEG4 sources. Their cheap alternatives provide you all this,
What?? They have a better OSD? I thought they don't have an OSD at all
(let a lone a TV out)?!
they don't
force you to do anything on the card what can get done much easier and
better on the host processor.
Why should we waste out time with cards which are not better than the
old ones?
open your eyes. they are. Simplicity and reliability is a significant
improvement in my eyes.
well are the simpler to install ?
Holger, please realize that we are talking about FULL FEATURED cards here!
IMHO a DVB card that is really worth using (as primary card, of course),
must provide TV out (which implies MPEG decoding and OSD). Of course
there may be people (like yourself) with different opinions, who are free to
use VDR with the necessary plugins to do the output via graphics adapters
and soundcards. I for myself prefer the way the FF DVB cards do it, even at
the cost of limited OSD capabilities. I don't need all that "eye candy"
stuff that's often talked about. What counts most is functionality, not beauty.
After all, what I want to use this for is watching TV, recording stuff and
replaying it. Whether or not the OSD menus have thousands of colors, a
"graphical" interface (I never understood why some people are so afraid of texts)
or fancy background images doesn't matter. The really important functions
are somewhere else.
Klaus
Yes thats the point, for something like tv, no primers are wanted, solutions
are prefered.