liz_upton

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by liz_upton 15y ago
Yes, you're wrong. We don't get a subsidy or any other special treatment from Broadcom; they are helping us in allowing us to purchase chips in much smaller numbers than they'd usually consider, though. They're also very happy for their e
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by liz_upton 15y ago
We'll definitely be shipping, and it'll definitely be at the price we've been talking about all along. At the moment we're waiting for the factory to send the finished units back to us (things slowed down for Chinese New Year); we don't hav
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by liz_upton 15y ago
I work for the Raspberry Pi Foundation, and I can assure you that the chip exists. If you do a bit more googling, you'll find it's in already out there in the millions in other devices - the Roku set top box, for example. That thread you li
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by liz_upton 15y ago
The Raspberry Pi foundation is not Broadcom - we're having a hell of a time getting that message out. We're an independent charity. Our director does work for Broadcom, which meant that we were able to get a foot in the door to discuss bu
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by liz_upton 15y ago
It is full 1080p, but that clip doesn't have content to the edge of the video frame, so you're seeing black bars at either side (which we are decoding, for what it matters!)
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by liz_upton 15y ago
It's a cine clip, so I think it was 24fps. We can decode 30fps, but it's actually quite hard to find content!
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by liz_upton 15y ago
We're selling too close to cost to make any discounts workable, but we can discount on shipping if people buy lots in one go.
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by liz_upton 15y ago
We're definitely not done with optimisation, which is why we're not launching right-now-this-minute. You'll be seeing improvements, which we'll be blogging about (we think development's fascinating, and that it's good for people to have a g
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by liz_upton 15y ago
The article doesn't mention the HDMI sound, which was always high quality. The upgraded audio is from the 3.5mm jack, which means you can now run two high-quality streams at once - something that some people have been requesting.
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by liz_upton 15y ago
We definitely can. Our BOM comes in well under the planned selling price, and we're totally confident of hitting the $25/$35 price points.
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by liz_upton 15y ago
Hi - I'm Liz from Raspberry Pi. What you can see in that vid isn't the whole of Inglorious Basterds, but just the trailer (which is why it fits on a small SD card) - we were playing it on a loop. The Raspberry Pi can play back full 25 megab