<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 2:51 PM, Karl Dietz <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dekarl@spaetfruehstuecken.org" target="_blank">dekarl@spaetfruehstuecken.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">On 23.04.2013 19:55, Matt Emmott wrote:<br>
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On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 1:18 PM, Karl Dietz<br></div>
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for 10 $currency more then taht you can get a AMD E-350 board and<br>
another 10 $currency for 2 GB of memory.<br>
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with the latest developments in amd drivers you even have a chance to<br>
get hardware offloading without doing development yourself :-)<br>
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Unless I'm missing something, that doesn't make any sense at all. You're<br>
quoting the price for just a board and RAM. The Beagleboards and<br>
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Someone posted a reference to a naked board, I did not investigate how<br>
much additional cost there is until you can use it. I just looked up the<br>
German price for the part and how much more you'd have to pay for a<br>
(mostly) supported part.<br>
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Both will need a case, a PSU, some local storage or remote boot (I<br>
prefer the latter, others prefer the former), some kind of remote, etc.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>No, the Beagleboard includes a PSU and has 2GB onboard storage.Not enough to store recordings but enough for a bare bones FE. <br>
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Raspberry Pis and their ilk are complete systems for under $75 when all<br>
is said and done. I can't find anything even close based on an AMD E350.<br>
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Almost all embedded boards come with closed video hardware. And the<br>
ones that are not closed do need additional development to support the<br>
video decoder. Until someone does this work they are unusable, doesn't<br>
matter how low the price is.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>I have a Raspberry PI and it plays back 1080P Blu-Ray and 1080i MythTV recordings just fine, albeit with a one-time $5 licensing fee. <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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If you can find a complete system for your $65 price point I'd love to<br>
see it.<br></blockquote></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>My Raspberry Pi with cheap case, cheap power adapter, SD card and license fee came in at right around that price.<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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Well, the 65 price point is for whatever you get for 45 with the cheap<br>
ARM boards.<br>
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Every time I see these cheap boards on offer I'm wondering why the Asian<br>
manufacturers don't offer a modern TV attached computer in a little bit higher price range (say 75). They can save chips/cores if they use HDMI<br>
for control and networking, just add a cheap case for the vesa mount<br>
and make sure that the TV's USB bus can power it.<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Agreed.<br><br> <br></div></div><br></div></div>