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Skriven 2005-03-09 17:31:46 av Glenn Meadows (1:379/45)
   Kommentar till text 3016 av John Oellrich (1:379/45)
Ärende: Re: Plextor PVR
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From: "Glenn Meadows" <gmeadow@comcast.net>

Maybe try one of the 801.11 pre N's?  There was a review of the Belkin on
register.com, and while they said it was not initially going to be compatible
with the final N spec, I would suspect that a firmware upgrade would solve that
problem.  Besides, if it's the only N you need, then why not, as it supports
b,g, and I think a.

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Glenn M.
"John Oellrich" <john@oellrich.us> wrote in message
news:422f83f5$1@w3.nls.net...
Glenn,

Now this looks cool! I really like the fact that all the MPEG/DivX encoding is
done in the unit.

I have an ATI  TV WONDER USB 2.0 that I have been using, sorta, with my laptop,
but I really don't like its performance. It seems to be just a TV tuner and the
CPU is expected to do too much work, frame loss and distorted images.

I have been toying with getting an ATI TV Wonder Elite for my main system, but
now I'm in a quandary.

$149 for the TV Wonder Elite (it does do MPEG2 encoding), and then just let
the native power of my Athlon64 do after the fact transcoding to other formats
and use the LAN to transfer them to the laptop. Or the Plextor for
$199 which I can easily share between my main system and the laptop, and
does all the conversions itself.

But here is what is really in the back of my mind, somebody, sometime soon has
got to come up with a PC TV Tuner card the supports digital cable HDTV. ATI has
one for over the air HDTV, but I'm way too far out in the boonies (worse I did
have a tall antenna pole that could pull in the NYC channels, but one of the
trees that hit the house took it out and I never replaced it or claimed it as I
didn't use it for anything).

Oh the dilemma of it all!

Finally made a decision, the ATI TV Wonder Elite. Was a nanosecond from
punching the "Complete Purchase" button on Plextor site, but then a little
sanity took hold. Hey fifty bucks is fifty bucks, right? And ATI for me is a
known evil <g>. More importantly I plan to redo the whole house, including the
deck, for Gigabit Ethernet this spring, so shifting around gigabyte files will
be no big thing.

And for just streaming files from one of my desksides to the laptop on the deck
would only require me to run a 100Mbps connection to the deck. I have found
that 802.11G is not sufficient for that. It should be, but no joy. Too many
retrains/dropouts. Plus it will completely eliminate the wireless security
issues.

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john

john@oellrich.us
  "Glenn Meadows" <gmeadow@comcast.net> wrote in message
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  Anyone play with this yet?

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  Glenn M.

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