[mythtv-users] Rhapsody Card

[Tom Panning]

Actually, from the little bit that I understand about these things, 
development kits are always outrageously priced. They're not meant to be 
bought by the public. In this case, I suspect the development kit is targeted 
at a company Foo that will make their _own_ pvr card (using the same chips); 
the development kit exists so that Foo's programmers can start developing 
software before its hardware engineers finish designing their pvr card.

So this development kit is a step in the right direction, but not a final 
step.

Tom

On Wednesday 02 April 2003 04:20 pm, Thczv F. Thczv wrote:
> After poking around a bit more on the sigma web site, and looking
> at old news releases, it appears that the development kits costs
> $5000.  Yes, you read that right.  Perhaps the price will come
> down at some point.
>
> --davidh
>
> > > Do any of you know anything about this product?
> > >
> > > http://www.sigmadesigns.com/pdf_docs/rhapsody_brochure.pdf
> > >
> > > The brochure even says the development kit
> > > comes with linux drivers.  With hardware mpeg-4
> > > encoding and decoding, I would think you could
> > > get by with a very modestly powered PC.
> > > Perhaps one of the fanless epia boards would
> > > work.
> >
> > Wow, looks really great!  There is also a driver
> > being written for the MPEG 2 compressor board
> > from Hauppauge...
>
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