Re: Re: [ADVERT] Price drop on Black Gold Freeview TV Tuners and MCE Starter Kits

[Phil Harris <phil@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jim Noble wrote:

>Phil Harris wrote:
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>>But that would involve a PC (or some other hardware decoder) in
every
>>room...
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>The hardware requirements aren't all that onerous really. It's only a
>matter of time before someone comes up with a single chip solution (if
>it doesn't exist already). No reason why you couldn't have something
the
>size of a SCART breakout box that plugs in the back of the telly and
>provides an RJ45 socket on the back for the network connection...
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That already exists - we had a company in showing us exactly that as a
product, a single or double width faceplate with a SCART socket on it
and on the back either a video encoder or a video decoder (double width
encoder, single width decoder) and a network socket.

Did a good job but you giys wouldn't like the price!

>>...if you have existing TVs then it seems stupid to have to go to
all that extra effort when just piping s-video does the job for
non-critical viewing.
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>Can't argue with that :-)
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>Jim
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:-D

Phil