Re: [vdr] [RFC] Shutdown rewrite for 1.5.x

In 20070201182714.GA8722@localhost.localdomain, you wrote:

I wouldn't be so sure about the majority of VDRs using FF cards. I haven't seen any ad for an FF card, but I have seen many ads for cheap USB DVB-T tuners. The trend is likely to change, given that decoding MPEG-2 is no challenge to current PC hardware.

Also generic video cards are increasingly coming with video decoding features, and HDTVs can be connected straight to a PC without the need for a horrible scaler or special screen mode. Although not all the decoding features are available to Linux, dedicated decoder/TV-out cards are looking quite obsolete, and DVB card manufacturers are bound to respond to that.