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> > Hello! I saw the card at MicroCenter... It is PCI :((( > > >The TV works best if it is PCI. That's because of the special >DMA transfer feature PCI provides. A PCI card can write directly >to the memory of another PCI card. That's why watching TV puts >so little usage on the CPU... I think you'd have a hard time with video on the ISA bus (as in, it wouldn't work). The bandwidth of the PCI bus is needed for live video. *** Subcription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with subject of "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" to discuss-request at blu.org
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