Onno Kreuzinger wrote:
Please scroll back in the mailing list archive. Even yesterdays Macs and PCs are powerful enough to decode MPEG2 and DivX. For HDTV you need less than 2GHz, this is still ways less than today's processors provide.There is no advantage except that these cards are really cheap.?!? sorry, I don't understand you. They do their job and are cheap, isn't this advantage enough?
well you save 100€, but loose one pc, or at least quite some resources,
esp. if you actually do what you promote: fancy osd, p-i-p, osd overlays, mpeg4, HDTV, ip streaming.