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

[Steffen Barszus <st_barszus@gmx.de>]

Am Mittwoch, 19. November 2003 04:15 schrieben Sie:
> Johannes Stezenbach writes:
>  > Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
>  > > Well, AFAICS this "old hardware" is very widely used, and the
>  > > main platform VDR is designed for. And judging from the download
>  > > volume every new version of the "linvdr" distribution causes
>  > > (according to Mirko Dölle) VDR must be rather popular ;-) So I
>  > > guess this hardware will still be in use for quite a while, and
>  > > I can see no adequate replacement around - but that may be due
>  > > to my lack of market overview...
>  >
>  > The "funny" thing is that you can buy a full av7110 based set top
>  > box for 150 Euro (sometimes cheaper), but the DVB-S/C cards are
>  > still sold for 299 Euro here at Saturn. I would be happy if VDR
>  > were designed to run on hardware which is cheaper and has better
>  > Linux developer support
>
> Funny, or rather sad?
> Considering what the parts on those cards cost, that they are
> probably cheaper than 4 years ago, and that the cards still cost the
> same ... The STBs you mention went down from about 500 Euro to 150
> Euro in the same time.
> But the market makes the prices and I guess too many people are still
> willing to pay that much lacking a better and/or cheaper "full
> featured" alternative.

299 EUR isn't really the price someone would pay for such a card. More 
common are prices around 200 EUR. I have asked at such a store and was 
told that they sell one in a half year. 

Steffen



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