Scott Dorsey
August 5th 04, 04:33 PM
Arny Krueger > wrote:
>"Kalman Rubinson" > wrote in message
>> On Thu, 5 Aug 2004 10:26:31 -0400, "Arny Krueger" >
>> wrote:
>
>>> This could be one way to beat the high development costs usually
>>> associated with manufacturing a DVD player - scrap out a good
>>> mainstream box, .....
>
>> Of course. You should know that all players, mass market or high-end,
>> use mainstream mechanisms which a purchased as OEM parts, aside from
>> those few major brand, such as the ones you mention. No news.
>
>I was aware of the widespread use of standard off-the-shelf optical
>transport mechanisms, but not the transplantation of what seems to be the
>entire player, power supply, and major circuit cards included.
>
>There might be a major logical flaw in this, as they appear to be adding
>more parts to the signal path, not changing or removing them.
Depends on what they are doing. Meridian had a whole line of players
where they used the original Philips transport, control board, and
audio board. BUT, they removed the DAC and filter chips and ran lines
to their own daughter board which had their own DAC circuit in it.
Only thing they provided was the daughter board and the box (which was
much heavier-duty than the flimsy Philips chassis).
--scott
--
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."
>"Kalman Rubinson" > wrote in message
>> On Thu, 5 Aug 2004 10:26:31 -0400, "Arny Krueger" >
>> wrote:
>
>>> This could be one way to beat the high development costs usually
>>> associated with manufacturing a DVD player - scrap out a good
>>> mainstream box, .....
>
>> Of course. You should know that all players, mass market or high-end,
>> use mainstream mechanisms which a purchased as OEM parts, aside from
>> those few major brand, such as the ones you mention. No news.
>
>I was aware of the widespread use of standard off-the-shelf optical
>transport mechanisms, but not the transplantation of what seems to be the
>entire player, power supply, and major circuit cards included.
>
>There might be a major logical flaw in this, as they appear to be adding
>more parts to the signal path, not changing or removing them.
Depends on what they are doing. Meridian had a whole line of players
where they used the original Philips transport, control board, and
audio board. BUT, they removed the DAC and filter chips and ran lines
to their own daughter board which had their own DAC circuit in it.
Only thing they provided was the daughter board and the box (which was
much heavier-duty than the flimsy Philips chassis).
--scott
--
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."