[mythtv-users] Lowest power HD frontend?

[Jeff Siddall]

On 05/30/2013 04:53 PM, Gary Buhrmaster wrote:
> On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 3:14 AM, Jeff Siddall <news at siddall.name> wrote:
> ....
>> Well... but my assessment the IONITX qualifies as "small, fanless, low power
>> and capable of deinterlacing 1080i in 60 Hz countries", but I was hoping
>> something more ideal had come out in the past few years.
>
> AFAIK, none of the IONs could reliably do Advanced 2X on 1080i at 60Hz.
> You must be one of those who either have a good post-processing engine
> on your TV, or run a lower quality deinterlacer, or are one of the fortunate(?)
> ones that do not see (or are not bothered by) the observed issues referred to
> as motion-blur/jitter/stutter/judder/jerkiness/jumpiness/shockiness that
> some of us find as quite bothersome.  Since this is absolutely a personal
> perception issue, some will see it, and some will not (just as some found
> CRT 60Hz flicker a problem, and some never did).  I presume that there is
> a good physiological reason some see the issue and some do not, but I'll
> let the medical professionals deal with that.

Yeah, I can't run Advanced 2X, but for the amount of interlaced stuff I 
watch Temporal 2X does OK.

I guess I am a bit disappointed we don't have <<10 watt machines today 
that can do all this easily.  The first ION stuff came out 4 years ago 
and Moore's law should have solved this by now. :(