Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Cheap Hardware For ATSC Reception

[Daniel Schmelzer]

Hi Steve--

Fair question, since the WinTV-D is a fine board.  In fact, I have a WinTV-D 
and am encouraging good open driver support for it (always looking for 
volunteers--email, if interested).

But I omitted it from the list, since getting the raw stream from the board 
is a complicated business--Hauppauge implemented their demuxer in an FPGA 
that, by its nature, is closed and has no documentation.  This is a shame, 
since the decoder/bridge that Hauppauge used, the Conexant Fusion 878A, is 
one of the chipsets best supported by the open development community.

Hauppauge has a Windows datacasting application that captures a stream, but 
it is nearly featureless and buggy (useless for most applications).  
Hauppauge stopped development on the board and data capture app about a year 
and a half ago, and I guess that they haven't printed more of these boards 
for several years.

Regards--

Dan

> From: Steve Schear <address@hidden>
> To: "Daniel Schmelzer" <address@hidden>
> CC: address@hidden>
> Subject: Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Cheap Hardware For ATSC Reception
> Date: Fri, 17 May 2002 15:53:56 -0700
>
> At 06:52 PM 5/16/2002 +0000, you wrote:
> > Hi All--
> >
> > I am new to this area, so please indulge my uninformed questions.
> >
> > What I'm looking for is the cheapest and simplest implementation for the
> > ATSC demodulator module that is being discussed here.
> >
> > The target "market" is home theater computer enthusiasts in the States.
> > and Canada.  Currently, the cheapest ATSC implementation is the MyHD card,
> > at about $320.  This card includes a hardware video decoder, but the newer
> > Pentium 4s should be able to handle software decoding (my P4 1.7 w/Rambus
> > only gets about 20 frames per second, unfortunately).
>
> I that the list price?  The Hauppauge WinTV-D has a U.S. street price <
> $300.00  See http://www.hauppauge.com/html/products.htm#digital
>
> steve




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