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</a><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 3/4/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Michael T. Dean</b> <<a href="mailto:mtdean@thirdcontact.com">mtdean@thirdcontact.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On 03/03/2007 09:11 PM, Brian Wood wrote:<br>> On Mar 3, 2007, at 6:24 PM, David Brodbeck wrote:<br>>> Brian Wood wrote:<br>>><br>>>> On Mar 3, 2007, at 6:06 PM, David Brodbeck wrote:<br>>>>> Just read recently that a requirement for all TVs sold in the
<br>>>>> U.S. to<br>>>>> have digital tuners is going to take effect soon. I imagine the<br>>>>> price<br>>>>> of small TV sets will increase significantly.<br>>>>>
<br>>>> They really shouldn't, as those devices are really nothing once you<br>>>> are tuning the VHF/UHF bands anyway. The main cost of a standalone<br>>>> card is the board itself and the power regulators, capacitors etc,
<br>>>> all of which is already there on a TV receiver main board. Really all<br>>>> they have to do is add a chip, the real cost is probably the design<br>>>> and documentation, as well as the FCC certification.
<br>>>><br>>> I'm not sure it's that simple. I mean, whereas the signal chain was<br>>> all-analog before, they now need an MPEG2 decoder and frame buffer as<br>>> well. This seems like a significant increase in complexity to me.
<br>>><br>><br>> Hmmm... I was only think of the "tuner" you mentioned, not the<br>> decoder chain.<br>><br>> But think about it, a PVR card in quantity, minus the cost of the<br>> board, power components, connectors, IR interface, packaging,
<br>> marketing, included software and documentation starts to get close to<br>> nothing. Granted the TV set might need something better than SD they<br>> may only do 720P, and if enough of those chips are made they should
<br>> get pretty cheap.<br><br>But, even if they only "do 720P", they still have to decode 1080i60<br>because it's one of the 18 formats in ATSC... So, you need a full HDTV<br>MPEG-2 decoder in there. (
I.e. an ATI Xilleon or whatever... Anyone<br>know what those go for?)<br><br>Mike<br>_______________________________________________<br>mythtv-users mailing list<br><a href="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org">mythtv-users@mythtv.org
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