Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] HDTV and the USRP

[Steve Schear]

At 12:23 PM 7/28/2004, John Gilmore wrote:
> > Wasn't one of the major requirements of the USRP to be able to handle
> > [HDTV in real time]?
>
> No.  The main requirement of the USRP was to make hardware that ordinary
> people can buy and plug in, which is at least as capable as the $1200
> PCI boards that were used in our early work (including the HDTV decoding).

My notes pre-date the USRP's formal design, but in them it was discussed 
more than once that an ability of the sought after A/D - D/A board to 
unburden the host CPU by performing demodulation was important.  Since I 
was not involved in later design discussions I can only assume it was 
dropped as a requirement.

steve