popatim :
Looks like blatant BS to me.
First 120 channels would require 120tuners. How did they get that in a pc?
Second, OTA at least, is already H.264 encoded so there is nothing to transcode
3rd issue is $30 for the quicksync version? Why when Handbrake has been able to use this for years and is *Free!*
I didn't bother reading any further.
First of all, the information that 120 Tuners are required is not true. Depending from the channel amount on the satelitte transponder it is possible to broacast more channels! I have on my system a TBS quard Tuner PCI-Express card, and i can receive with one Tuner more than one channel.
The raw HD streams in my case has arround 10-12 Mbps, i want transcode them to lower bitrates arround 3 mbps the save bandwidth. So transcoding is definitely required in my mind.
Quicksync is just support CPU based GPU it has lower transcoding power than Graficadapter based GPU.
So my question is, is it realy possible to transcode up to 25 HD channels on one Nvidia based GTX Graficadapter?