[opendtv] Re: Latest 5th Gen

  • From: "Manfredi, Albert E" <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "OpenDTV (E-mail)" <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 12:33:08 -0500

Bob Miller wrote:

> LG is not making STB's with their 5th generation chip
> because the cost of making them is to high relative
> to the price they can charge. The cost is in the HD
> decoder area.

I laughed aloud at Bill Hogan's comments on this. They
sound right on the money.

> One difference I was told between the prototype we
> tested last summer and the one we tested last week was
> that the 5th gen chip was not in the tuner in the
> prototype.

Huh? That's important news, no? Was it the 6th gen chip
that we've been hearing rumors about, then? So all this
talk about how great the 5th gen chip was just BS?

Bert
 
 
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