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Old 06-04-2003, 05:59 AM
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Default Should PCM receivers really cost more?

Originally posted by Lynx
Rodney.. PCM receivers can cost over 150 dollars and all it does is receive and decode a 9600bit/sec RF signal at 72MHz... Now lets compare that to a moment to say a USB wireless card. Which can transmit, recieve, decode, encode, encrypt and route a 11mbit/sec signal at 2GHz which (checking on pricewatch) can go for as little as 33 dollars... Justify the cost of a PCM receiver knowing that...
If there's a USB wireless card that can survive in the same conditions as our receivers, is as small and light, and doesn't weigh any more, I'll take fifty for $33 a pop.