From owner-freebsd-multimedia Sun Oct 12 01:47:13 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id BAA09103 for multimedia-outgoing; Sun, 12 Oct 1997 01:47:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-multimedia) Received: from gaia.coppe.ufrj.br ([146.164.5.200]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id BAA09097 for ; Sun, 12 Oct 1997 01:47:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jonny@coppe.ufrj.br) Received: (from jonny@localhost) by gaia.coppe.ufrj.br (8.8.7/8.8.7) id GAA05267; Sun, 12 Oct 1997 06:46:34 -0200 (EDT) From: Joao Carlos Mendes Luis Message-Id: <199710120846.GAA05267@gaia.coppe.ufrj.br> Subject: Re: [video] Fxtv 0.45 In-Reply-To: <199710120755.QAA07993@Berkeley.RACE.u-tokyo.ac.jp> from Naohiro Shichijo at "Oct 12, 97 04:55:21 pm" To: shichi@Berkeley.RACE.u-tokyo.ac.jp (Naohiro Shichijo) Date: Sun, 12 Oct 1997 06:46:34 -0200 (EDT) Cc: luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it, multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL32 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk #define quoting(Naohiro Shichijo) // In these days, we can buy Bt848 w/tuner at 9800 yen (something around US$80) // in tokyo. That sounds quite competitive though 8) But be real competitive, you should also have a monitor and a CPU. It's cool to watch TV inside your computer, but it's far from competitive against pure tv sets. Maybe if you sell it as a video edition machine... :) // > > Imagine this: // > > // > > A consumer walks to an tv/stereo store to purchase a new tv: // > > // > > Sony, Toshiba, Panasonic, FreeBSD/Fxtv // > // > I am afraid we would not be competitive in the price. Any chance to // > make this ROMable :) Jonny -- Joao Carlos Mendes Luis jonny@gta.ufrj.br +55 21 290-4698 jonny@coppe.ufrj.br Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro UFRJ/COPPE/CISI PGP fingerprint: 29 C0 50 B9 B6 3E 58 F2 83 5F E3 26 BF 0F EA 67