Dom
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I can see mounting it being a bit of an arseache without proper mounting/screw holes and anyone doing cases for them will be asking for a decent penny.
Ash - Kind of agree but cost was the limiting factor.
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ed
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Yah, it's designed for electronics development and programming. You need access to all the pins on it and the purpose of it was to be as inexpensive as possible, so a £2 case would make it cost £2 too much.
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LeeM
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So xbmc on a memory card, hdd plugged in, hdmi, power using USB-micro USB in the tv, plugged into ethernet,xbmc remote on iPad on wifi and it should work?
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ed
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Yup, in theory that should all work 
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LeeM
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Oh I've got an old blackberry charger, they're micro usb aren't they?
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ed
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Yup, or you could use an iPhone charger with a different cable. I'm sure there are all sorts of things which have USB chargers too.
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LeeM
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Any info on what sort of voltage it'll need? So I can start looking for a power lead?
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Bart
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quote:
Originally posted by LeeM
Any info on what sort of voltage it'll need? So I can start looking for a power lead?
All in the picture.....
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LeeM
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Missed that, I've got a 5v USB plug at home. iPhone ones are the same voltage but not sure about current.
These look ok quality and not bad price http://www.amazon.co.uk/Nokia-CA-101-Micro-Data-Cable/dp/B000U6QPFI/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1325531420&sr=8-2
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pow
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When will they be releaseddddddddddddd
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Steve
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What are you going on about pow? why are you typing like that?
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Neil
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Originally posted by Rob_Quads
You can snap one of the beta boards up - A snip @ £850 or £1350 at the mo!
http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/raspberry_pi/m.html?_nkw=&_armrs=1&_from=&_ipg=&_trksid=p3686
Bump, see how much they went for? 
#1 went for £3,500...
http://www.ebay.co.uk/csc/raspberry_pi/m.html?rt=nc&LH_Complete=1&_fln=1&_ipg=&_trksid=p3911.c0.m283
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ed
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quote:
Originally posted by LeeM
Missed that, I've got a 5v USB plug at home. iPhone ones are the same voltage but not sure about current.
These look ok quality and not bad price http://www.amazon.co.uk/Nokia-CA-101-Micro-Data-Cable/dp/B000U6QPFI/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1325531420&sr=8-2
iPhone chargers are rated at 1A, I'd hazard a guess that all USB chargers will be rated the same. Either way, it will probably run on 500mA as that's the specification for USB 2.0 and I think it's meant to be able to run just plugged into your PC's USB port.
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Gary
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They really need to hurry up and get these released
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Ian W
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I work for the person who designed this and we built the first 10 
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LeeM
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Havent they outsourced production to china or something to meet demand and cost?
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Gary
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Yeah. On about making the model As over here tho
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Gary
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quote:
Originally posted by LeeM
Missed that, I've got a 5v USB plug at home. iPhone ones are the same voltage but not sure about current.
These look ok quality and not bad price http://www.amazon.co.uk/Nokia-CA-101-Micro-Data-Cable/dp/B000U6QPFI/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1325531420&sr=8-2
Samsung chargers are 5v 0.7amp. Will do the job
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Originally posted by Ian W
I work for the person who designed this and we built the first 10
Have you been hounded about this yet?
Any inside info about release dates yet?
Also, any chance of a CS group buy when it is released? - Not for a discount, but more to get them before they sell out 
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Ian W
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quote:
Originally posted by stubs
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Originally posted by Ian W
I work for the person who designed this and we built the first 10
Have you been hounded about this yet?
Any inside info about release dates yet?
Also, any chance of a CS group buy when it is released? - Not for a discount, but more to get them before they sell out
No next to nothing about it tbh, was watching one get tested a few weeks ago and remember it getting talked about before xmas but never put 2 and 2 together until I was told and I was like..."Hang on a minute...." 
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stubs
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lucky so-an-so!
What's your verdict on it then? Did it look as good as people are expecting?
Can you let us know in here if you hear any more news about them?
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Dom
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XBMC running on the PI - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NR57ELY28s
Looks extremely impressive, even more so that it apparently decodes other codecs like XVid (not much information has been released regarding this though). Granted transitions look like they could be a little smoother (although i suspect XBMC isn't fully optimised for the PI) and it'd be interesting to see how it handles streaming media like Icefilms/Netflix but for £20 quid for a 1080p media player, you can't really complain 
The Cotton Candy also looks like a brilliant device (http://www.fxitech.com/products/) with it having a 1.2GHz dual-core Arm, 1GB ram etc But it's likely to sell for £100-150 
Edit - Just need to get CEC working on the device
[Edited on 22-01-2012 by Dom]
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The XBMC guys say that it really needs 256MB of RAM to run and this thing only has 128MB so its going to really be running on the limit i think.
Its one of those. I would spend another 10$ and go for 512MB ram version
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noshua
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CEC as in this? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HDMI#CEC
Saw that XBMC video the other day, their forums bought up an interesting topic with regards to audio and video decoding;
http://www.raspberrypi.org/forum/general-discussion/xbmc-running-on-raspberry-pi/page-3
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Please remember that even if the SoC can support a particular format, licencing costs may mean that it won't be provided. You would be stunned how much Dolby et al charge to use their, really quite primitive, formats. For example, AAC, a fairly simple audio format, costs MORE to licence than H264, a very sophisticated video format.
I'll try and find out more about what will and won't be supported.
EDIT: Pass-through will be supported though so that probably isn't as much as a problem as some user(s) were making out.
[Edited on 22-01-2012 by noshua]
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Originally posted by Rob_Quads
The XBMC guys say that it really needs 256MB of RAM to run and this thing only has 128MB so its going to really be running on the limit i think.
Its one of those. I would spend another 10$ and go for 512MB ram version
There will be an optimized version for the Pi, just as there is for ATV
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