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 > > 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. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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.