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<blockquote data-quote="dman_lfc" data-source="post: 155999" data-attributes="member: 10331">All,Thanks for your feedback on the price point as expected I thought it too much.The realities here is that if you manufacture anything is small volumes i.e. 200 or 500 pieces then the cost per board price is high. With that and having manufacturing locally because of these low volumes it doesn't help our cause with other options now available.The reality is unless you're doing production runs of 5,000+ and getting these manufactured in Taiwan the price is going to be high.As for the Broadcom option the chip itself is $40US but there are alot more costs relating to maunfacturing which has to be taken into consideration. Comparing the decoder costs to my own design I can safely say that low volumes and local manufacturing would yield the same result.To give you an example of the manufacturing burden just to get the board made it takes at least £15,000 for three revisions of the board to gaurantee a solid h/w platform. Obviously the cost is reduced significantly after that for production runs.I'm investigating other options however I doubt it would be less than 200 euro's even with maunfacturing in Taiwan.DMAN</blockquote>

[QUOTE="dman_lfc, post: 155999, member: 10331"] All, Thanks for your feedback on the price point as expected I thought it too much. The realities here is that if you manufacture anything is small volumes i.e. 200 or 500 pieces then the cost per board price is high. With that and having manufacturing locally because of these low volumes it doesn't help our cause with other options now available. The reality is unless you're doing production runs of 5,000+ and getting these manufactured in Taiwan the price is going to be high. As for the Broadcom option the chip itself is $40US but there are alot more costs relating to maunfacturing which has to be taken into consideration. Comparing the decoder costs to my own design I can safely say that low volumes and local manufacturing would yield the same result. To give you an example of the manufacturing burden just to get the board made it takes at least £15,000 for three revisions of the board to gaurantee a solid h/w platform. Obviously the cost is reduced significantly after that for production runs. I'm investigating other options however I doubt it would be less than 200 euro's even with maunfacturing in Taiwan. DMAN [/QUOTE]

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