On 11/13/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Chris Ribe</b> <<a href="mailto:chrisribe@gmail.com">chrisribe@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
> And, given time, as technology matures and the price of HDTV-sized-video<br>> encoders drop, we'll be able to capture via component after the cable<br>> box decodes the signal.<br><br>I wouldn't count on this ever happening. There is no market for
<br>analog high def encoders in the professional sector, so the technology<br>has nowhere to trickle down from into the consumer market.<br><br>[snip]<br><br>So, who is going to pay for the development of a low cost analog high
<br>def encoder chip? I hope someone does, but the clock is ticking. It<br>won't be long before those ubiquitous Y/Pb/Pr outputs start to<br>disappear from new products.</blockquote><div><br>You just need three A/D converters, then it's just a matter of having enough processor power for encoding in software. Then, as you point out, it depends on how fast analog outputs disappear.
<br><br>-Jerry<br></div></div>