Squirrel;148698 Wrote: > I'd propose that it's worth Slim/Logitech approaching these companies > with a view to building Squeezebox client functionality into these > devices. It shouldn't add much to the cost - all these units already > have a VFD and MP3 decoding hardware.
I thought the same thing until recently, but there are problems here: the VFDs, even in the top receivers, are nowhere near those in the Squeezebox, 320 X 32 pixels, greyscale, graphical. Also the Squeezebox 2/3/Transporter doesn't have an MP3 decoding chip - it's all rewriteable (I believe the Xilinx CLPD?) which means it is not limited to what's hard-coded into the chip like the SB1. And finally, the Squeezebox requires a 250 MHz 8-way multithreaded RISC CPU to handle everything, primarily the display if the Transporter is any indication because it has to run at 325 MHz in order to handle the second display. There's no way a DSP as found in most receivers can handle this. Without these critical components, you'd have something in between a SliMP3 and a Squeezebox 1. Not bad, but not the real deal. I'm not sure if the CLPD and the Squeezebox's processor are expensive but they are pretty complex. Also the display is very expensive, it's the single highest-cost component in the Squeezebox. You could have a simple SlimServer-aware client though, but not really a Squeezebox-in-a-receiver. -- Mark Lanctot ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mark Lanctot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2071 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28934 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
