Klaus Schmidinger schrieb:
Several years ago, when VDR was first developed, it was based upon a then all new DVB card, which implemented a complete device with tuner, MPEG decoder and optional CI adapter.
I think the situation is different with the new display technology than it was before with out 50/100 Hz TV PAL sets.
If you say that the new full featured hardware should implement DVI output etc. - what will be responsible e.g. for things like scaling and deinterlacing?
To be honest: If you look at latest (flat-)TV sets and their way to deinterlace and scale the picture, I would prefer to get this done by software e.g. by using spline resize algorithms (see e.g. http://audio.rightmark.org/lukin/graphics/resampling.htm) and advanced deinterlacing options (see e.g. http://home.knuut.de/MWieser_/vf_raw_ntv_8) known from xine and mplayer. Unfortunately, those algorithms need processing power, processing power is expensive, and this will make this hardware really expensive.
In the end, the price will make the market again, and so we might get lower quality as we really want, and a budget card with an apropriate software solution will then be the better choice.
Don´t get me wrong, I like my FF, the quality I get on my 50 Hz TV and the fact, that nothing (not even heaviest hard disc access) can interrupt the decoding process. But I know: 50 Hz, real interlace display and sharp image quality even on fastest movements will soon be history - if it isn´t already. Maybe this will change in the near future, but as I said, you will first pay a lot for it.
With kind regards
Joerg