[vdr] Re: workaround for Rev 2.x cards

[Christian Berger <einStein@donau.de>]

Sebastian Herp schrieb:
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Christian Berger" <einStein@donau.de>
> To: <vdr@linuxtv.org>
> Sent: Sunday, June 23, 2002 8:58 PM
> Subject: [vdr] Re: workaround for Rev 2.x cards
> 
> > Well I now have the 2.1 card and I have to say the quality is far worse.
> > Anyhow I neither have the space nor the money (I've heared 80cm TV-sets
> > are 100EUR and more) to afford such a set.
> >
> 
> And again my question: who on EARTH sells 80cm TV-sets for 100 EUROs??? No
> european school can be so damn rich (or crazy) to do this ;-)

Not schools, but flea markets or dumsters.

> the normal price for 82 cm 16:9 tv-sets starts from around 750 EUROs and has
> an open ending ... ok, you can buy it used of course, but then forget about
> warrenty, etc ...

Well, if I would have the money and the space for such a television set,
I'd still rather get a good analog reciever and a VCR simmilar to this:
http://www.lionlmb.org/quad/acr225.html (early digital video casette
changer) It's as usefull as VDR but has a better quality than a DVB card
over composite.
 
> Greetings,
> Sebastian
> 
> PS.: you said scart=rgb ... ok, i connected my old digital set-top-box via
> scart-cable (both sides) to the tv-set. The quality is ok, you could call it
> "brilliant", but the vdr-pc connected via composite doesn't look horrible
> compared to that picture ... maybe a bit brighter with less contrast, but
> nothing a good tv-set cannot compensate ...

Well most cheap set-tob-boxes only have composite despite of having
scart. But on the TV-side almoust every TV with Scart has RGB.

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  Casandro