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On Friday 30 June 2006 18:47, luc wrote:
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> Le vendredi 30 juin 2006 =C3=A0 09:38 +0100, Dieter a =C3=A9crit :
> > > As another consumer, why does the PC have to stay out of the pizza
> > > box?=3D20
> >
> > To keep the cost down.
>
> snip and etc
>
> > > PCs are also=3D20
> > > cheap enough to just buy everyone their own do-everything box, and
> > > save=3D20 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 sour=
ce
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> > 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=C2=B4t think that an all-in-one product would get the fav=
or
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> 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


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