Why would it have hardware *encoding*? I'm pretty sure you guys mean it has hardware *decoding*, which is a nice thing to have in an HD tuner, and most other devices that have it cost a lot more than this.
There's no reason for an HD tuner to need to encode something to mpeg2 that's already encoded to mpeg2.
Hello Jeff. I'm thinking the encoding is for the DVR although it is also used during playback during live television as well. I'm thinking that over the air digital is broadcast in MPEG2, but you know MS has to have their way, therefore anything recorded in Media Center is re-encoded into DVR-MS files. For that reason you would need a hardware encoder to work on the fly to re-encode that raw MPEG2 signal coming into your computer.
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Why would it have hardware *encoding*? I'm pretty sure you guys mean it has hardware *decoding*, which is a nice thing to have in an HD tuner, and most other devices that have it cost a lot more than this.
There's no reason for an HD tuner to need to encode something to mpeg2 that's already encoded to mpeg2.
Hello Jeff. I'm thinking the encoding is for the DVR although it is also used during playback during live television as well. I'm thinking that over the air digital is broadcast in MPEG2, but you know MS has to have their way, therefore anything recorded in Media Center is re-encoded into DVR-MS files. For that reason you would need a hardware encoder to work on the fly to re-encode that raw MPEG2 signal coming into your computer.