Just noticed the following at the top of http://www.pchdtv.com/hd_3000.html:
"Priced at only $189.89 - We are now taking orders and shipping within a week of the order. Volume discounts start on just 2 cards saving $4.89 ea. and $9.89 on 5 or more cards" Anybody interested in purchasing this card? The more people we get together to purchase it, the bigger the discount (5+ $180). John --- John Hebert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm subscribed to the [EMAIL PROTECTED] > mailing > list. Yesterday there was a post by John Gilmore > (http://www.toad.com/gnu/) about the pcHDTV HD-3000 > card ($190) which will be outlawed by the FCC in > July > 2005, as ridiculous as that sounds. Read his message > below for more. > > Get em while they're hot. > > John Hebert > PS: If there is a lot of interested in this card, we > could possibly get a bulk discount > (http://www.pchdtv.com/faq.php#faq0000004). > > > Message: 4 > Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2004 16:49:38 -0800 > From: John Gilmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [Discuss-gnuradio] pcHDTV HD-3000 card is > shipping; easy HDTV > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Message-ID: > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > For people who want to decode HDTV in hardware > rather > than with GNU > Radio software, this board is now shipping. It does > NOT honor the > broadcast flag, and will therefore be illegal to > manufacture after > July, 2005 [if the FCC's power-grab for authority to > regulate how > receivers for radio signals are built is upheld by > the > courts]. > > GNU Radio is not a practical way to watch HDTV. It > takes a long time > to capture and decode the data stream -- like 40x as > long as the show, > last time we timed it. We built it to show that an > open source > implementation CAN work. We could speed it up in > various ways, but > we've had other things to do (like pushing the USRP > hardware out). > > This card IS a practical way to watch HDTV on Linux. > > It's supported > by MythTV and other free video and PVR (personal > video > recorder) > software. > > The HD-3000 card is only good for receiving analog > TV > and HDTV, as far > as I know. But the drivers are all open source, and > hardware is often > designed with "bypass" modes for debugging, which > disable entire > blocks of the chip (such as the ATSC decoder) and > permit raw signals > to be observed by software. There may well be a way > to configure > it to tune in and digitize other signals of > interest. > > This 5V PCI card costs $190 in single quantities, > with > volume > discounts available: > > http://www.pchdtv.com/hd_3000.html > > Here's more info about the lawsuit against the FCC's > "broadcast flag" > regulation, American Library Association v. FCC. > The > FCC not only > claims a power to dictate the design of receivers > (which it has never > claimed before), and then uses that power to dictate > what kinds of > equipment the reciver is 'permitted' to convey the > received signal to. > This 'permission' results in the FCC regulating a > wide > variety of > devices that can be plugged into a receiver. The > FCC > delayed imposing > rules that would outlaw GNU Radio, because they knew > they were on > shaky ground there. Librarians, consumer groups, > Public Knowledge, > lobbyists like the Center for Democracy and > Technology, and EFF sued: > > > http://www.eff.org/IP/Video/HDTV/?f=broadcastflag.html > > Here's more about the Broadcast Flag itself: > > http://www.eff.org/broadcastflag/ > > John > > > > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Check out the new Yahoo! Front Page. > www.yahoo.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Check out the new Yahoo! Front Page. www.yahoo.com
