[mythtv-users] Hauppauge HD-PVR: Photos and link to pre-order

[Steve Hodge]

On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 1:03 PM, Craig Treleaven <ctreleaven at cogeco.ca>
wrote:

> Good quality H.264 is usually done in two
> passes and even high end PC's take several times live to give a
> tightly compressed, good quality result.
>

Dedicated chips are often an order of magnitude faster at a specific task
than a general purpose CPU.

They say their $250 device encodes in real time.


HD Camcorders do, right? They're not $250, but they're also not just an
encoder.

They've promised a lot and I hope they can deliver.  But I'll be
> skeptical until there are credible reports in from the field.
>

We'll have to wait and see. But I don't see anything they've announced as
being technically impossible.

Cheers,
Steve
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