From: "Darren Salt" linux@youmustbejoking.demon.co.uk
On average under 3500 kbit/s = 1.5 GB/hour for most Finnish channels, at least on DVB-T, and I doubt cable is any better here.
That's 437.5kB/s.
Let's double that to take account of PCI->memory transfer and processing time taking a chunk out of disk I/O time and assume typical maximum IDE bandwidth of 30MB/s on PII/PIII boards.
That gives 35 channels.
I'm not saying that this is in any way accurate, though :-)
But I'd say close enough. And I use SATA drive which gives a bit more throughput that IDE. Too bad I do not have more dvb cards to try this out :) And if I had I dont have enough free channels :)
\Kartsa