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accident · 07-08-2012, 03:31 PM

The marvell qdeo scalar has been winning awards in this area for some time.. I have 1 player with it and it's a gorgeous image. Of ocurse the rest of that player sucks.

joe citizen · 07-12-2012, 03:33 AM

(06-12-2012 09:47 AM)Willem53 Wrote: now the strategic question is indeed does Syabas want to own the User interface or does PCH want to sell a lot of open systems...

Syabas will have to offer a SMP8672 media player and it will have to support some form of XBMC. I don't see how Syabas could still stay in business if they dont. Even with NMJ V2 its still not XBMC and people bring up this fact all the time. If you have other companies offering media players with XBMC and Syabas sticks with their current offerings, they are going to get squashed. This is of course assuming that XBMC on the SMP8672 works like its supposed to.

**halfelite** · 07-12-2012, 04:11 AM

(07-12-2012 03:33 AM)joe citizen Wrote:
(06-12-2012 09:47 AM)Willem53 Wrote: now the strategic question is indeed does Syabas want to own the User interface or does PCH want to sell a lot of open systems...
Syabas will have to offer a SMP8672 media player and it will have to support some form of XBMC. I don't see how Syabas could still stay in business if they dont. Even with NMJ V2 its still not XBMC and people bring up this fact all the time. If you have other companies offering media players with XBMC and Syabas sticks with their current offerings, they are going to get squashed. This is of course assuming that XBMC on the SMP8672 works like its supposed to.

that big if is how well does it work. and actually there is no support by pch. if pch sells a an xbmc box it is sold as is from sigma. they dont do any dev work its a solution offered straight from sigma pch would just be a middle man.

nPiotr · 07-12-2012, 05:49 PM

Will they support 10bit H.264 (Hi10p) ?

**chris57** · 07-12-2012, 07:46 PM

It could be dualboot:-

1. Option 1 NMJ
2. Option 2 XBMC

With only Option 1 and the dualboot system the areas supported by PCH.

The new range of Sigma chips are low cost and I can't see anything but a replacement for the Popbox type lower end plug'n'play for it. The new range top end chip has the same processing power as the current PCH used chip, the 8647.

So a cheap player with only NMJ, or a dualboot player if the make it a more expensive product.

Questions like 10bit support can be found by looking at the Sigma chip specs.

**halfelite** · 07-12-2012, 07:50 PM

(07-12-2012 07:46 PM)chris57 Wrote: It could be dualboot:-

1. Option 1 NMJ
2. Option 2 XBMC

With only Option 1 and the dualboot system the areas supported by PCH.

The new range of Sigma chips are low cost and I can't see anything but a replacement for the Popbox type lower end plug'n'play for it. The new range top end chip has the same processing power as the current PCH used chip, the 8647.

So a cheap player with only NMJ, or a dualboot player if the make it a more expensive product.

Questions like 10bit support can be found by looking at the Sigma chip specs.

cant be dual boot, the xbmc solution is a turnkey solution you get what you get from sigma nothing more nothing less, whoever sales it is basically a reseller of the box. And no 10bit is still not on any hardware decoders and more then likely wont be for a very long time. Remember download content is a niche market. these same chips are used in bluray players, tv's, game consoles so until commercial stuff goes 10bit I doubt we will see any hardware decoding done by a chip.

**chris57** · 07-13-2012, 04:52 AM

So we will see lots of 4 employee companies appearing offering XBMC. Like we see with the Realtek turnkey chips. Seems that Sigma have given up developing their own code and palmed it off to the community?

With PCH and it's overheads they have to be able to offer more than XBMC and 4 employee companies.

joe citizen · 07-14-2012, 01:29 AM

(07-12-2012 07:50 PM)halfelite Wrote: cant be dual boot, the xbmc solution is a turnkey solution you get what you get from sigma nothing more nothing less, whoever sales it is basically a reseller of the box...

I never got the feeling from reading the literature that XBMC on the SMP8672 was an all or nothing solution. It seems to me like it supports XBMC as a choice but is not going to be required. Syabas should be able to use the SDK to do what they currently do plus some. If they want it, XBMC is there as a turnkey option, if they dont, they dont use it. That's what I would expect to see.

accident · (This post was last modified: 07-14-2012 01:42 AM by accident.)

The press release was very clear that xbmc was a free turnkey solution. Where it wasn't clear is what after that.. I'm under the impression that sigma did a quick port for bragging rights and not so sure what options anyone will see to update the hardware on their own. They kind of did that for android and never really finished it.

I for one can't wait until everyone who thinks xbmc is what they want but for some reason never bothered setting up xbmc on their own goes away.

**chris57** · 07-14-2012, 01:57 AM

Same here, XBMC reminds me of Windows Media Centre and its not something I have bothered with recently.