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#127021 - 19/11/2002 05:48 Friend for your empeg
wvloon
journeyman

Registered: 13/08/2000
Posts: 82
Loc: Near Arnhem, Netherlands
Anyone here already ordered one of these babies ?
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#127022 - 19/11/2002 09:49 Re: Friend for your empeg [Re: wvloon]
Daria
carpal tunnel

Registered: 24/01/2002
Posts: 3937
Loc: Providence, RI
Sounds a lot like the F@milyconnect box I'm told my friends in Sweden have been getting surplus of.

I want a box that supports mpeg2 *en*coding. A shame there's no datasheets for the chipset in the TiVo.

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#127023 - 19/11/2002 12:28 Re: Friend for your empeg [Re: Daria]
number6
old hand

Registered: 30/04/2001
Posts: 745
Loc: In The Village or sometimes: A...
In reply to:


A shame there's no datasheets for the chipset in the TiVo




There are, but you reportedly have to pay Sony in the order of $US5 million to get them.
Thats probably why there are none available for free - I imagine the NDA requirements for something like this would be pretty onerous and the penalties for premature disclosure extremely high.

There is rumoured to be some very serious processing power in ther MPEG 2 encoder in the Tivos and Tivo aren't even using a half of the capabilities of the Sony chipset inthe Tivos right now.

What about the Encoders in the ReplayTV models? How good are they?



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#127024 - 19/11/2002 13:12 Re: Friend for your empeg [Re: number6]
Daria
carpal tunnel

Registered: 24/01/2002
Posts: 3937
Loc: Providence, RI
Needing to pay more than I will make in my life is effecvtively the same as "don't exist".

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