Mueen Nawaz wrote:
> Darren New wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> 	We must have vastly different notions on what constitutes expensive.

Likely. I've been a professional computer programmer for 30 years. I 
don't mind spending money to get a decent system that fits my needs.

On the other hand, the TV it's plugged into is probably 15 years old at 
this point. I buy quality stuff when I can.

Relatively speaking, you pile up all the hardware together, it's pretty 
inexpensive for the machine it is. If you bought all the parts 
individually and left out the tuner card, it would be more than $1000. 
It's a pretty high-end tuner card, too. (I'm assuming you're saying 
$1000 would be expensive regardless of the machine it buys. The machine 
has a bunch of stuff in it I didn't list.)

A bottom-of-the-line machine from Wal-mart in the same time period was 
some $300 or $400 without any OS/software on it, no DVD drive, etc.

-- 
   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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