Budget

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"Budget" stands for "Low Budget DVB Card" and mostly means the absence of a hardware decoder chip.

Commonly on newer hardware, for example the hardware MPEG2 decoder is missing, as it is too expensive and nowadays not really necessary any more. With a budget card, the decoding is done by software on the computer's CPU, e.g. VDR Software Decoder Plugin or xine.

For example, the relevant minimum system requirements for a Technotrend DVB-T Budget T1500 are:

  • CPU Pentium at 733 MHz (for HDTV 2,4GHz or faster)
  • 128 Mbyte RAM
  • PCI/AGP-videocard with at least 32Mbyte RAM