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To: Shahen Petrosian who wrote (46575)	1/27/1998 11:55:00 PM
From: Ali Chen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

<opinions are extremely useful when they are backed with facts and sources and are free of bias.> You are free to consider my opinions as less useful. And where have you seen an unbiased opinion? especially on this thread... To undermine my credability more, I'll tell you more on this topic. The reason that this MPEG hardware is more expensive than $100 is that NOBODY NEED IT. I mean mass market. The reason they do not need it is because NOBODY CAN USE IT TODAY with current bandwidth of local copper telephone connection. (I hope we understand that we are talking about normal-blown video, as you were so excited about in some of your recent posts). Conclusion: P-II/333 software MPEG encoding is a "hypeware". Besides, you still need fast NTCS video decoder, digitaizer, and bus-master DMA (PCI) CARD to have the video input. It costs money too. Instead of whinning about my lack of data back (sorry for pun), you better put me on test and tell everybody why you think I am wrong. Have a good decision to reach. Ali