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Uncompressed TV Video Over USB 2.0 from ATI
An anonymous reader writes "Ever wanted to watch TV on your notebook computer? Well, you used to be stuck with an external TV tuner that will usually compress the video so much to squeeze it down the USB interface, that it's not worth watching. But the new ATI TV Wonder manages to push uncompressed video down the USB 2.0 interface, producing superb image quality. It also comes with ATI's suite of multimedia applications and utilities. The reviewer reckons it's a great unit, although a little bit on the expensive side."
(Oddly, /. itself at first thought that I should not see this article either...)
And it was already boring the first time. ;-/
What will they think of next? The internet on TV??
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I'm waiting for TV via Wifi. Oh wait, I guess TV already is wireless.
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Sure... duping happens. Sure... I can understand it happening even as frequent as it does. with all of the Mods and such. But notice it is almost ALWAYS CmdrTaco.
On a slightly unrelated note, expect to see this modded into the ground, right before my account becomes mysteriously banned.
"When life gives you lemons, don't make lemonade. Make life take the lemons back!" -- Cave Johnson
You sound like you'd be the type of guy mentioned here.
Generally the problem is that the TV signal is not worth watching before any compression.
Ah - you have hit upon one of my pet projects. Most tv isn't worth watching at all. Some tv has good parts and bad parts, and this is the best tv you can find. If you could cut out the bad parts of tv episodes, and maybe reorder some scenes or something, you could compress shows down to vastly reduced, and concentrated hits of completely awesome. For example, imagine taking Babylon 5 and cutting enough to get it down to one season? First thing to do is cut out the doctor, who only drags the show down. Next cut out most of the mimbari, because I don't want to see elves in space. Next get rid of half of the episodes completely because they are throwaway filler. Get rid of the 5th season because there was a fifth season??? Splice in some of the movies and cut down the scenes, and you would have one intense viewing experience. So as you can see, sometimes shows are only worth watching after compression!
I submitted this story last night, and it didn't get posted.
What am I missing here?
Brain cells would be my guess.
The ripping software made a direct copy of the DVD.
The DVD contained compressed video with a bitrate of about 6-8 Mbps. That's what you were streaming.
If it was uncompressed (like the tuner we're discussing) you would have needed to stream about 300Mbps.
Just to make things clear, 300 is a bigger number than 8. Hope this helps.
I've been doing this for years. All I had to do was attach the incoming coaxial connection, boot it up, and voila! It even came with a remote so I can watch the broadcasts in the comfort of my couch. Anyone interested should check out the amazing Sony WEGA.
>> it's not worth watching
Well, guess what, even uncompressed TV is not really worth watching. Two hundred channels of complete bullshit.