To be honest, any sane tech company with a large consumer product list (or even a small one) hide their engineering resources from contact by random end users. You really do not want random person who bought one consumer product of yours to be able to bombard your engineering resources with random end user or even smart user questions or complaints... even just ignoring such e-mails takes time and resources.
That said, as for your specific question, you might be able to get some help on the linux DVB mailing list. (there is a special developer's mailing list for people who do hardware drivers for TV/satellite receivers, etc). Some of them should be knowledgeable about the things you ask, in some way. AFAIK the linux kernel actually bundles some firmware for such devices - of the i2c class, it sort of rings a bell - on the fly as they are plugged-in. Or the Xorg hardware driver people who do video overlays and etc and 3D drivers, and know about TV-out and video hardware. (By PC/notebook, I assume you mean windows... you might want to be more specific when you write to those two groups of people anyway...) -------------------------------------------- On Tue, 8/10/13, Denys Vlasenko <[email protected]> wrote: <snipped> How to contact Philips firmware developers? <snipped> How would you go about contacting firmware developers in general? I mean, how to penetrate layers of crappy customer "support" and reach someone who actually knows something technical? _______________________________________________ busybox mailing list [email protected] http://lists.busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/busybox
