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Originally Posted by imelda
Correct, this is just a way for tuner card manufacturers to make dirt cheap tuners that rely on your CPU for everything. Maybe it's a harsh call, but think "Winmodem".
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I had exactly the same thought but Winmodems were never really as big a problem as people made them out to be. Let's face it, who doesn't have a Winmodem these days - and onboard Audio is getting pretty popular these days too.
But on-board video is still questionable on anything but a pure Office machine since video processing is probably the most intensive application most PCs will do these days - whether it be 3D rendering or video encoding/decoding.
I dont see that there is enough headroom in any reasonable configuration today to cope with offloading MPEG2 encoding onto the CPU comfortably and I think we can expect a period of people being disappointed with the performance of their media centres until CPU power catches up.