From owner-freebsd-multimedia Thu Feb 3 21: 4:27 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from picnic.mat.net (picnic.mat.net [206.246.122.133]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8FA30438D for ; Thu, 3 Feb 2000 21:04:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (chuckr@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by picnic.mat.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA23944; Fri, 4 Feb 2000 00:04:15 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from chuckr@picnic.mat.net) Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2000 00:04:14 -0500 (EST) From: Chuck Robey To: Tim Pozar Cc: freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Hauppage WinTV-D Digital TV receiver In-Reply-To: <20000203092757.A67002@lns.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 3 Feb 2000, Tim Pozar wrote: > http://hauppauge.lightpath.net/html/wintv-d.pdf > > Anyone have any experience with this card? I thought instead of > getting the regular card I would try this one as we have HDTV in > this area now. Don't miss the fact that while it does decode from 480i format to 1080i format, it bring it down to 480i format. In other words, you won't be able to tell it's any better quality. Personally, I think the real McCoy (real HDTV rendered without bit loss) may be in the future, and I don't want to buy this half measure. > > Thanks... > Tim > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include C & Java programming, FreeBSD, chuckr@picnic.mat.net | electronics, communications, and signal processing. New Year's Resolution: I will not sphroxify gullible people into looking up fictitious words in the dictionary. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message