On Sunday 20 March 2005 14:08, Torsten Schenkel wrote: > Am Sonntag, den 20.03.2005, 15:57 -0600 schrieb Ron Johnson: > > > Definitely crossed wires. Both my HD capture systems are dual PIII > > > boxes, one with dual 500s, one with dual 600s (all hooked to 1.5TB of > > > storage). My HD playback frontend is an Athlon XP 3200, 512MB of RAM > > > and a GF FX 5200. > > > > Why so much juice in your front-end CPU? > > That's HDTV. While the HDTV content comes in as mpeg2 transport streams, > which more or less have only to be pushed to disk on the backend, the > frontend needs to decompress the data. About K7-2800+ seems to be the > minimum requirement for this.
What he said.
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