Wow, what a horrible review by PC Magazine. The writer's all stressed out about whether the lack of an MPEG-2 encoder will strain his CPU, when it's 100% irrelevant for ATSC (i.e., the type of programming that people buy these cards for).
The real issue of interest when reviewing these things is comparative reception. Someone needs to round up these things, and get down to the chipset level to ascertain whether they include the most recent, sensitive tuner chipsets found in new-to-market ATSC set-top boxes and HDTVs.
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Paul Moon @ Jun 19th 2008 3:19PM
Wow, what a horrible review by PC Magazine. The writer's all stressed out about whether the lack of an MPEG-2 encoder will strain his CPU, when it's 100% irrelevant for ATSC (i.e., the type of programming that people buy these cards for).
The real issue of interest when reviewing these things is comparative reception. Someone needs to round up these things, and get down to the chipset level to ascertain whether they include the most recent, sensitive tuner chipsets found in new-to-market ATSC set-top boxes and HDTVs.