[opendtv] Re: Hardware based and PC card based encoding solutions

Well put.  People should remember you get what you pay for.  That is why a
fully operational encoder system with high MTBF numbers and vendor support
costs, and why we are in business.

Ralph P. Manfredo
President and CEO

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-----Original Message-----
From: opendtv-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:opendtv-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of John Willkie
Sent: Tuesday, May 31, 2005 12:32 AM
To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [opendtv] Re: Hardware based and PC card based encoding solutions

simple answer:  when you pay $100 for a PC card, you don't expect much in
the way of customer support.  When you want to build a system and have it
run for every second until the end of time, you tend to spend more than
$100, and you expect and need more of you vendor(s).

John Willkie

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Prashant Desai" <prashant.desai@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, May 23, 2005 11:01 AM
Subject: [opendtv] Hardware based and PC card based encoding solutions


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> I was testing couple of hardware based encoders and few PC card based
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> Now , after testing if I think ,  then I feel a  bit  strange situation.
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> Capture Cards and Software based Encoding Solutions for  are readily
> available for a few hundreds or few thousands of dollars.
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> 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 ...
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> 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
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> Regards,
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> Prashant
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