[vdr] Re: font

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

Carsten Koch wrote:
> 
> Dariush Forouher wrote:
> >
> > Am Fre, 2002-04-05 um 15.48 schrieb Carsten Koch:
> > > 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,
> but I guess you are right: from the specs at
>    http://www.hauppauge.de/prod_nexus_s.htm
> it seems that the nexus would still be suitable as a primary
> card for VDR? Has anyone tried? Does it work without problems?
> 
> 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.
> 
> 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.

The current price for the full featured DVB-S at http://www.pc-werksverkauf.de
is 199,00 EUR - just FYI.

Klaus
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