extremetech.com— Plextor unveiled a new mini digital HDTV receiver on Wednesday that the company says will transform a user's laptop into a wireless personal video recorder.
Mar 29, 2007View in Crawl 4
Actually NOT...because the over the air HDTV/DTV signals are ALREADY MPEG2 encoded....all your PC is doing is saving them to disk as they are received...no need for encoding or anything at all.
The problem with having video go through a laptop is that there is always a small delay in video, anywhere from a quarter of a second to a few seconds. It's fine for VCRs and DVRs and so on, but it's terrible for video games.
Because the consortium that controls access to the technology are about as big of control freaks as the MPAA and RIAA.I spoke with one of the people in charge of encryption technology information (among many other things I'm sure) at my local cable company (Click!Network - a city owned cable provider in Tacoma, Washington). He said that they would not license the technology for an operating system except Vista. Don't hold your breath for those linux drivers :-/
warpirateMar 30, 2007
This looks identical to Artec's T14a usb HD receiver. also Agreed on the antenna portion from above. HD antenna's are a scam Do not buy into it.
nixfuMar 30, 2007
Actually NOT...because the over the air HDTV/DTV signals are ALREADY MPEG2 encoded....all your PC is doing is saving them to disk as they are received...no need for encoding or anything at all.
nixfuMar 30, 2007
The over the air DTV/HDTV is transmitted as MPEG2...so you don't really need an encoder, you just save the MPEG stream as its received off the air.
tvarmyMar 30, 2007
The problem with having video go through a laptop is that there is always a small delay in video, anywhere from a quarter of a second to a few seconds. It's fine for VCRs and DVRs and so on, but it's terrible for video games.
bocajwhoMar 30, 2007
Because the consortium that controls access to the technology are about as big of control freaks as the MPAA and RIAA.I spoke with one of the people in charge of encryption technology information (among many other things I'm sure) at my local cable company (Click!Network - a city owned cable provider in Tacoma, Washington). He said that they would not license the technology for an operating system except Vista. Don't hold your breath for those linux drivers :-/
bootesMar 30, 2007
How is this news? It's basically identical to hundreds of other HD tuners that have been out for years....
ponosochegMay 12, 2007
Quite strange Seems the server is down.
kwimiaMay 18, 2007
Impossible! I don't like such articles.
sharly2007Oct 5, 2007
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