I 'suspect' that there will be many more difference between the XE1 and E1 than there were between the A and XA1. Rumour has it different video decoder, it might get SHARCs etc this time!!
I 'suspect' that there will be many more difference between the XE1 and E1 than there were between the A and XA1. Rumour has it different video decoder, it might get SHARCs etc this time!!
I thought that both versions had the SHARC processors I thought the main differences were a better Video DAC, 1080p rather than 1080 interlaced only for HD and SD scaling and a 5.1 analogue output.
No one can find the SHARCs yet but until I get one myself this remains to be seen but I have high res pictures of top and bottom of the main A2 board and they ain't there!!
The MPEG is different, as is the continued use of the Intel inside, and the NEC MPEG chip appears to do the audio now as well. Nothing wrong with any of this but it does mean much of the original info might not be too accurate....Mind you the machine still has SHARC logos on the front They look nice
Well it would be a little stupid by Toshiba to put SHARC processor by Analogue Devices on the front of the box if they were not there. As a complete non-techie opening the box and having a look is out of the question. How else would they decode all the formats in the box without em?
Agreed, I would be pretty miffed if they were not there as it all over the packaging manual etc. i.e. they make a really big point of there being a 32bit floating point SHARC.