On Friday 30 June 2006 18:47, luc wrote: > Le vendredi 30 juin 2006 à 09:38 +0100, Dieter a écrit : > > > As another consumer, why does the PC have to stay out of the pizza > > > box?=20 > > > > To keep the cost down. > > snip and etc > > > > PCs are also=20 > > > cheap enough to just buy everyone their own do-everything box, and > > > save=20 a lot of hassle. > > > > PCs are a lot of hassle to set up and maintain. This would be *less* > > hassle. A *lot* less. If you want to decode HD in software you need a > > LOT of CPU and CPU is expensive. And uses a lot of power. If the source > > is HD you have to decode HD even if the display is just SD. > > Personally, my proposal is just an externalization of the graphical > ressource (in a pizza box or in the monitor, anyway) > Moreover, I don´t think that an all-in-one product would get the favor > of the consumers : the PC will stay the PC, the TV will stay the TV and > a Media center will be anything else.
Well... Someone is doing it... (All in one that is). http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS7551486368.html H
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