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Re: frame grabbers

From: Doug Sutherland <>
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Michael wrote:

> I mis-read the specifications. The Ampro enCore 500 is 
> sginificantly more expensive than the Advantech PCM-5822.
> The quote I got for the encore 500 was $725 for the board

I think that Advantech is spoiling us and also is 
blowing the doors off almost all competition in 
terms of price for an all in one multimedia SBC. 
It might be hard to find another one as cheap. 
The $725 price for enCore 500 is not bad but ... 

> plus $349 for the manual and cables

This is insanity.

> recommendation to purchase the $999 developers kit.

Nonsense. I assume you won't be writing your own 
BIOS for the hardware, so you will never need 
the developers kit.  

> Advantech on the other hand was $410 including the
> cables. Does anyone know of a board that has similar
> specs as the Advantech or Ampro with a PC/104+ bus
> and a price tag closer to the Advantech price?

See if you can get a price on the DSP Design TP300. 
It's nice and small but has MediaGX audio/video.
This mated with a PC/104+ frame grabber would be 
4x4x1 inches, would have awesome video, and if we
can figure out how to load these NS CX5530 linux
drivers it would also have full duplex audio.

http://www.dspdesign.com/tp300prod.htm

  -- Doug

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