--- what about the Cell Broadband Engine Family? IBM wants folks to
sign on pretty badly. It may simplify getting the "processing power/
bandwidth" needed. I doubt it would make the design overly easy.
As far as I can tell, the CBE is hard to get a hold of, hard to work
with, hard to power, etc. While it seems great, the problem is
that we won't have the resources to build a board for one. Correct me
if I am wrong - I would love to have a cheap, $150 dollar
development platform with video out for the CBE now that Sony cut the
$500 PS3. I am sure that others would also - heck, we could
probably even get a partnership with RapidMind or something!
--- There probably will be a market for H.264 and MPEG 4. Basicly
you would be trying to enter the home entertainment pc market. With
basic video card functions.
I think that video decoding is a must, including H.264 and MPEG4.
Considering that this is supposed to be FOSS friendly, Ogg
Vorbis/Theora is probably a good idea.
Another question: Are we going to have a hard drive? SSD? Any form of
storage to facilitate "media center" activity? This doesn't include
the boot flash, of couse.
I have a 32" Sony Trinitron from a few years back (I want to say
2002), and it has Component in - I doubt many people who would
buy this would complain with just HDMI (which, with the adapter JRT
mentioned, goes to S/P-DIF and DVI), Component, and RCA
audio.
--- Probably better think about DRM legalities.
If the silicon labs separate chip we discussed for ODG is available,
they might be interested in our business. Then we *really*
don't have to worry about!
And as for the suggestion of using the Virtex II: that was my first
thought. It seemed like the perfect solution, but then I realised they
cost an arm and a leg (they are, IIRC, >$100 in 10000 qty). Not
really an option if we want to keep this cheap.
Nicholas
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