[mythtv-users] What about this? Hardware mpeg encoding, cheap!

[Patrick Reynolds]

On Sat, 21 Feb 2004, Andrew Dodd wrote:

> Quoting Christian Watteng=E5rd <christian at wattengard.com>:
>
> >
> http://www.gainward.se/products/hollywoodathome/entertainmentcentercard/e=
ntertainmentcentercard.html
> >
> > Anyone found any more info on it?
> >
> > Christian...
>
>
> Cheap?  I don't see a price listed anywhere.
>
> Googling for it seems to indicate that it's discontinued in the U.S.  I
> definately can't find it for sale anywhere.

The Google cache has the old summary, of course, and there's an
English-language page in Germany with substantially the same text.  If you
search for "gainward entertainmentcenter" you can find some Norwegian
retailers who appear to be willing to sell it.

Features: hardware MPEG-2 encoding, compliant with Windows MCE standards.
There's no mention of NTSC/PAL or which chipset it's based on.

Price: 785kr ($112) was the best I could find... not including shipping it
to the US.

The PVR-250 still looks like the better bet.

--Patrick