[sonic_rage]

let's cut to the chase...

is it going to sound better than the current ipods?

i mean the bar wasn't left off very high, with the exception of the sigmatel powered shuffle.

what do you think?

 

[cire]

"chipset" is a bit vague, is it not? you could be referring to any of the primary ICs in the ipod, some of which don't have anything to do with audio.

 

[nsjong]

Samsung will be making even MORE money.

 

[sonic_rage]

Quote:

Originally Posted by cire "chipset" is a bit vague, is it not? you could be referring to any of the primary ICs in the ipod, some of which don't have anything to do with audio.

You could assume that im talking about the audio chip.

 

[cire]

Quote:

Originally Posted by sonic_rage You could assume that im talking about the audio chip.

then i'd proceed to ask, "which one?"

 

[sonic_rage]

http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/26/s...ext-gen-ipods/

 

[bangraman]

Apart from decoding the MP3 into a direct digital audio stream, the Portalplayer chipset doesn't actually deal with the sound side. The Wolfson codecs (the same, or inferior versions to the 5G's codec can be found in many other players) do. Admittedly that is a factor in the ultimate sound quality but the Portalplayer chipset doesn't do a bad job of MP3 decoding.


I haven't bothered to look them up but I guess Portalplayer shares have totally tanked?

 

[LFC_SL]

Wonder if Apple want Samsung to limit their DAP output in future?

Bangraman, cool avatar. Is that you or a random image search?

 

[zip22]

Quote:

Originally Posted by bangraman I haven't bothered to look them up but I guess Portalplayer shares have totally tanked?

down almost 50%

http://finance.google.com/finance?q=Portalplayer

(change the graph to 1 month to see the drop, the news was announced almost a week ago)

 

[bangraman]

Unsurprising. I think PP's only other major customer for portable chipsets is(or was) iRiver, isn't it?


As long as the next Nano isnt anything like the YP-Z5, I'm not bothered.

 

[zip22]

interestingly enough, the samsung yp-z5 doesn't use a samsung processor. it uses a sigmatel chip.

http://www.anythingbutipod.com/archi...pz5-review.php

 

[bangraman]

Does that guy always use a pair of MDR-V700DJ's as his reference phones? When I did the Mobiblu review, I thought about posting it with the V700 instead in the 'sound quality' section as a pisstake of anythingbutipod but I thought few would get the joke if at all

Funny thing is that had the YP-Z5 been an Apple, he would almost certainly have ripped it to shreds

 

[spyrius]

Quote:

Originally Posted by bangraman I haven't bothered to look them up but I guess Portalplayer shares have totally tanked?

Yeah, "tanked" is a good word.

 

[GeeMan]

I thought I read that the deal with Samsung was the supply of chips for flash-memory based iPods only. AFAIK PortalPlayer will still supply chips for the HD-based iPods - at least for the time being...

Unless, of course, all next-gen iPods are to be flash-based (how much would 80 gigs of NAND memory cost?

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