[vdr] Re: font

[Marcus Kuba <marcus@kuba4u.de>]

Am 05.04.2002 17:33:59, schrieb Carsten Koch <Carsten.Koch@icem.de>:

>> > bad idea. I guess that is the reason why new Hauppauge cards
>> > no longer have an OSD. Sooner or later it will no longer be
>> Do you mean the Hauppauge Nexus? 
>
>No, I meant the Nova and the Nova-CI.
>I was not aware that the Nexus still has a hardware MPEG decoder,

>it seems that the nexus would still be suitable as a primary
>card for VDR? Has anyone tried? Does it work without problems?

?? Nexus is nothing else but the new name of the 'Rev. 2.1' DVB-S. 
So of course it works.

>I still think that soon there will be no market for hardware
>MPEG decoding. Even a 2-year-old CPU can do it in software now.
>So I guess sooner or later cards like the original DVB-s and
>the nexus-s will be dropped and we should start thinking about
>alternatives.

You forget one (IMHO very important) thing: output quality. There may
be lots of graphic-cards with TV-Out, but I've seen none that comes
even close to the TV-Out-quality of the DVB-S, at  least not under
those cheap ones you talk about.

>Also, at least time shifting will be a lot cheaper if done
>via the graphics card's TV-out that costs you between 0 and 20
>Euro, instead of using a 300 Euro Nexus for that.

Maybe... but a two-card-system has more advantages than that.

Greetings,   Marcus