I was testing couple of hardware based encoders and few PC card based encoding solutions , Now , after testing if I think , then I feel a bit strange situation. Capture Cards and Software based Encoding Solutions for are readily available for a few hundreds or few thousands of dollars. I have personally seen the quality of the video, and considering the investment, I believe that it a very fair bargain compared to the high cost encoders like Harmonic , Nextstream , tendburg etc ... Can any one help me to precisely understand why Hardware based Encoders such as HArmonic etc have an advantage over such PC card based solutions ? Regards, Prashant ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can UNSUBSCRIBE from the OpenDTV list in two ways: - Using the UNSUBSCRIBE command in your user configuration settings at FreeLists.org - By sending a message to: opendtv-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line.