Robert Schlabbach wrote: > From: "Thomas Sailer" <sailer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> >>On Mon, 2005-06-13 at 12:39 +0200, Robert Schlabbach wrote: >>>If you have a networked server box, you can plug PCI tuner cards >>>into it and forget about Brian's project entirely... ;-) >>No, not necessarily. The high bandwidth video data still doesn't >>have to go through the server, > > If a _server_ can't handle the network traffic, then a little network > device sure can't either... But with Gigabit Ethernet, I see no problem > with the traffic... > >>and try fitting more than 2 tuners into a normal >>PC, good luck with all the thermal problems. > > I have 3 tuner cards in my desktop PC with no thermal problems... > In fact even if it get's heated up i don't see any problems. I have 3 Twinhan cards with LG tuners which get damn hot .. Strictly speaking heated up or not heated up doesn't make any difference at all.. Or at least what i have seen.. Manu