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and we have another winner!



> > 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.

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