Hi Jim, Jim Thompson wrote:
I've got a pair of (still unused) pcHDTV cards that are almost a year old now. (Very little DTV on my side of the island, ok *NONE* that I can find.)
I think USB will be the future (in the sense that you can have a very small box that does everything). However, if you happen to be in town, perhaps you can bring those pcHDTV cards to McKinley? BTW, is your house finished? It's been a long while. (I understand it is a big mansion, when are you gonna invite us over for a party? Just kidding.)
I'd be interested in seeing how well a 1GHz VIA works with these, A P4 would just be way too hot and noisy for the living room.
I used to consult on VIA during one of their early patent infringement defenses against Intel. VIA's next main push is on relatively "low speed" (1.2 ~ 1.6 GHz), low power, low/no noise, relatively inexpensive dual core processors with small L2 cache (256K), ideal for hign-end AV applications. Perhaps they will be willing to donate a few of their single processor systems to help us build another (brand new) LTSP project (& hope they will appreciate the free publicity). This is something I will be trying to work on during my next trip to Taiwan. Wayne
