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MrSinatra;267458 Wrote: > > and you guys need to concede the tivo point. > > no duh its a computer. the point is the hardware does a lot of the > tasks instead of software doing it. Then Tivo is a very bad example. It -is- made from general purpose hardware, and you could (assuming Tivo let you have source code) build the same thing from a commodity PC with a TV card. It is a very stripped down PC running Linux.... with some nice software. The hardware of Tivo is not exciting at all, and is made from off-the-shelf components easily available in the PC world in quantity 1. There are no secret "specialized chips" that run TIVO's OS: it's Linux. The TV receiver/decoders are common on cheap video cards. There is no such thing as a chip that is optimized for SS any more than a CPU chip has Windows or Linux or MacOS builtin. That is not how computers work. To design such a chip would cost quite literally millions of dollars, which you would never recoup. (Which is why we are stuck with the cruddy x86 design with "enhancements".... starting over is expensive.) -- snarlydwarf ------------------------------------------------------------------------ snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=43198 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
