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Originally Posted by Bigbird999
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They claim Q1 this year, but so far it is vaporware. I don't think anybody has even seen one unless you count the one in a black box behind the curtain at the CES. Everybody wants one.
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And to add to that, that card WILL BE the one you want. Compare it to an old analog Hauppauge tuner that has inputs for an RF tuner and S-video. Instead this will not have a tuner and only have component and S-Video input.
This is sort of the "holy grail" of PC type PVRs. That is because the best quality input currently available to us is one of the existing cards that has S-Video input. If this card does ever come to be, it will have component input which is capable of MUCH higher resolution.
The higher the resolution being fed to the card that is doing the encoding, the better looking the final result will be.
The one question in mind (as was mentioned earlier in this topic) is how good will the cards final encoded video be? What is going to happen is that you will be feeding this card an excellent component video, and the card will be encoding that to some type of mp4. There are lots of mp4 "type" videos using the h.264 compression scheme. So it remains to be seen how it will look and play in Beyond TV.
I have a "good" feeling about this. After all BTV is already set up with its own h264 encoder which can be used optionally as one of the showsqueeze formats ... Soooo the base playback capability is already there.
I have already tried a few videos that were encoded using the h264 scheme. And BTV can play them back nicely.
