Invisible wrote:
> whether the technology that goes into them is actually expensive itself, 

Not in the US at least. Look up "tv capture card". I got a full-blown 
system, 300G drive, 1G ram, dual core 3GHz machine with dual tuner card 
and hardware mpeg, fairly high-end video card (Radeon whatever) 7.1 
surround sound yadda yadda for just under $1000.

The tuner cards themselves are anywhere from $50 to $150 depending on 
how many channels they can tune at once, whether they have hardware mpeg 
support, etc.

If you're commenting on the horizontal boxes, they're a bit more 
expensive than a tower, but the tech inside is identical, including the 
motherboards and all that. It's just rearranged inside to fit.

> or whether you're just paying to have something that works out of the 
> box...

Well, certainly that too.

-- 
   Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
     It's not feature creep if you put it
     at the end and adjust the release date.

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