[linux-dvb] Re: FF cards alter PTS'?

["Edward Wildgoose" <Ed@Wildgooses.com>]

> 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.

I kind of agree, and the quality of the DVB output is WAY higher on a
standard tv set than that of a normal graphics card.

However, once you start looking at plasma sets and projectors, then the
graphics card's VGA output (or DVI) starts to look like a less limiting
output device.  Granted the average user is probably still using a classical
TV, but I think VGA output to a Plasma is where the high end enthusiast is
going these days.

Taking a step back, why would I as a low end consumer actually want a DVB
card and PC at all?  Sky will sell you a digi box that does all this in a
rather neat way, and for probably less money than the DVB card itself.....!
(at least in the UK)  I would anticipate that a growing proportion of users
who actually go to the effort of building their own media PC box are going
to want to use them with high end output devices like plasma.  It may be
small today, but by even next year it could be quite significant.

Just a thought.



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