[MEncoder-users] tv tuner card suggestions?

[Rich Felker]

On Wed, Sep 05, 2007 at 04:25:46PM -0700, RC wrote:
> On Wed, 5 Sep 2007 23:06:23 +0100
> DaveG <mplayer01 at dgmm.net> wrote:
> 
> > And then some Chinese manufacturer will come along and swamp the
> > market with  $20 STBs
> 
> The transition in the US isn't comparable to the switch to DVB in
> Europe.  With the switch to ATSC also comes a 6X increase in
> resolution, and much larger bandwidth than DVB to support it
> (6MHz/19Mbps).  Even the lowest-end STBs must be able to decode that. 
> It's going to be a long time before the hardware required to do so even
> drops below $100.

No, they can decode the same was as lavc with the lowres=3 option,
i.e. DC-only. :) Then the only difficulty is bitstream parsing. Should
be possible to make this very cheap...

Rich