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

[Klaus Schmidinger <Klaus.Schmidinger@cadsoft.de>]

Robert Schlabbach wrote:
> 
> From: "Holger Waechtler" <holger@convergence.de>
> > like mentioned before: Full Featured cards an anachronism, I hope no
> > company will be so foolish to produce such a beast again for the mass
> > market.
> 
> That's rather unlikely, as Microsoft's digital TV architecture only
> supports "budget" cards which deliver a raw MPEG-2 transport stream. When
> asked about what they call "cards with a set-top-box decoder on it", the
> answer was: "We don't support that". Now which company would be foolish
> enough to produce a card that wasn't supported by Microsoft Windows...?
> 
> > Do you remember why dinosaurs died? They expected their environment to
> > adopt and were not willing to change their mind. Hope that VDR won't
> > share their destiny. The DVB hardware environment has changed - be happy
> > about it: things became cheaper, better and more robust.
> 
> Indeed, if VDR only supports obsolete hardware, it will soon itself become
> obsolete.

VDR supports exactly the hardware people write plugins for ;-)

Klaus


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