Am Mittwoch, 19. November 2003 04:15 schrieben Sie: > Johannes Stezenbach writes: > > Klaus Schmidinger wrote: > > > Well, AFAICS this "old hardware" is very widely used, and the > > > main platform VDR is designed for. And judging from the download > > > volume every new version of the "linvdr" distribution causes > > > (according to Mirko Dölle) VDR must be rather popular ;-) So I > > > guess this hardware will still be in use for quite a while, and > > > I can see no adequate replacement around - but that may be due > > > to my lack of market overview... > > > > The "funny" thing is that you can buy a full av7110 based set top > > box for 150 Euro (sometimes cheaper), but the DVB-S/C cards are > > still sold for 299 Euro here at Saturn. I would be happy if VDR > > were designed to run on hardware which is cheaper and has better > > Linux developer support > > Funny, or rather sad? > Considering what the parts on those cards cost, that they are > probably cheaper than 4 years ago, and that the cards still cost the > same ... The STBs you mention went down from about 500 Euro to 150 > Euro in the same time. > But the market makes the prices and I guess too many people are still > willing to pay that much lacking a better and/or cheaper "full > featured" alternative.
299 EUR isn't really the price someone would pay for such a card. More common are prices around 200 EUR. I have asked at such a store and was told that they sell one in a half year. Steffen -- Info: To unsubscribe send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe linux-dvb" as subject.
