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<blockquote data-quote="kamrat" data-source="post: 54710" data-attributes="member: 12967">In only a few weeks the Soccer World cup will be aired in 720p 50Hz mpeg4 (.h264) HDTV in the swedish DVB-T network.Wonderful! But I can't figure out what hardware will work.There are three categories of cards as I see it.1. Some DVB-T cards claim that they can reciever HDTV in both MPEG2 and MPEG4-format, like the Fire DTV. They should definately work. Right?!2. Now, there are also a few cards and USB2-dongles around that claim to be able to recieve HDTV (like the MSI Mega Sky 580 DVB-T) but they only list MPEG2 in their specs. Now - this is my big question - will they work with .h264?Isn't all the decoding done in the computer anyway and with a codec like Nvidia Purevideo that can handle .h264 it should work? If not - why?!3. In theory should not all DVB-T cards work using the right codec. All the card does is deliver the data to the computer, right? If not - why?!Are there any DVB-T cards that handle decode the DVB-T stream in hardware at all??Please help me understand this! I don't want to buy a Fire DTV if not necessary.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="kamrat, post: 54710, member: 12967"] In only a few weeks the Soccer World cup will be aired in 720p 50Hz mpeg4 (.h264) HDTV in the swedish DVB-T network. Wonderful! But I can't figure out what hardware will work. There are three categories of cards as I see it. 1. Some DVB-T cards claim that they can reciever HDTV in both MPEG2 and MPEG4-format, like the Fire DTV. They should definately work. Right?! 2. Now, there are also a few cards and USB2-dongles around that claim to be able to recieve HDTV (like the MSI Mega Sky 580 DVB-T) but they only list MPEG2 in their specs. Now - this is my big question - will they work with .h264? Isn't all the decoding done in the computer anyway and with a codec like Nvidia Purevideo that can handle .h264 it should work? If not - why?! 3. In theory should not all DVB-T cards work using the right codec. All the card does is deliver the data to the computer, right? If not - why?! Are there any DVB-T cards that handle decode the DVB-T stream in hardware at all?? Please help me understand this! I don't want to buy a Fire DTV if not necessary. [/QUOTE]

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