Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on January 03, 2007 05:33 PM
pcHDTV the manufacturer of the HD-5500 card as article on Wikipedia; * <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PcHDTV" title="wikipedia.org">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PcHDTV</a wikipedia.org>
They have open source device drivers and open source player for their TV cards.
I don't see what all this High-Definition thing is good for. HD-DVD and Blu-Ray is in format war, there is no one standard (to rule them all). And the devices are very expensive. There are almost no movies or media shipped on HD-DVD or Blu-Ray yet. I am not aware of any HD steams for cable TV or anything like that either.
DVD exists and it works well, its nice quality.
I never ever watched a DVD movie on my computer, even though I do have a DVD-ROM.
HD content is almost non-existent.
Even if HD was widespread, does it offer any noticeable increase in quality to that of DVD?
HD is completely irrelevant and boring to me, maybe in 10 years it will be good. And HD is so tightly knitted with broadcast flag and DRM and crap. Screw that.
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on January 03, 2007 05:33 PM* <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PcHDTV" title="wikipedia.org">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PcHDTV</a wikipedia.org>
They have open source device drivers and open source player for their TV cards.
I don't see what all this High-Definition thing is good for. HD-DVD and Blu-Ray is in format war, there is no one standard (to rule them all). And the devices are very expensive. There are almost no movies or media shipped on HD-DVD or Blu-Ray yet.
I am not aware of any HD steams for cable TV or anything like that either.
DVD exists and it works well, its nice quality.
I never ever watched a DVD movie on my computer, even though I do have a DVD-ROM.
HD content is almost non-existent.
Even if HD was widespread, does it offer any noticeable increase in quality to that of DVD?
HD is completely irrelevant and boring to me, maybe in 10 years it will be good. And HD is so tightly knitted with broadcast flag and DRM and crap. Screw that.
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