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Re: Watch TV on your PC ???

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From: Jason Stokes
Date: Thu, 25 Jun 1998 00:00
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In article <35922B6A.740B867D@iweb.net.au>, Glen Rosie
<rosie@iweb.net.au> wrote:

>Jason Stokes wrote:
>
>> WHAT??? You mean I can use a $3,000 computer to do the job of a $450
>> TV and VCR?  Sign me up now!
>
>I'm in no way associated with Traxan or anything, but don't have a go at
>someone unless you know what you're talking about, which you obvoiusly don't.
>I'm not aware of too many $450 TV and VCR combos or even by themselves at that
>price that provide digital online editing of sound/video. I'm aware that this
>product only allows input and output of the material and you need software for
>the editing, but still!!

[...] end-users have proven over and over again that they really aren't
interested in viewing TV signals on their PC.

- From a story on idx.net I read recently.  Digital editing might be
useful to some, but without the necessary software and secondary
storage this card is just another TV tuner card.

- -- 
Jason Stokes: jstok@valis.apana.org.au (Yes, it's another address 
change)

 See my homepage: http://bluedog.apana.org.au/~jstok/index.html
 for my PGP key.

'May you maintain the code of a thousand dyslexic perl programmers for
eternity!'

 The programmer's curse.

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From: jstok@bogus-address.apana.org.au (Jason Stokes)
Subject: Re: Watch TV on your PC ???
Date: 1998/06/25
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