Thread: Whats betters Pace or Samsung, and how do i get a samsung one?
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Old 08-10-2006, 19:46   #18
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Re: Whats betters Pace or Samsung, and how do i get a samsung one?
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Originally Posted by popper View Post

as a start that http://www.pegasosppc.com/gallery.php?id=128 PPC SOC+ is being sold for $99 and being made in batches of 1000 i think it is, the more you make the cheaper it becomes.

OK... Assume NTL has 4 million STBs (I don't know if they do, but I suspect that is a fair estimate). Now multiply that $99 by 4 million. Taking into account bulk discount, reduce it to $50. Thats $200,000,000

That's without the cost of all the back-end equipment Liberate provide, which would probably need to be replaced, and would probably add another few million to the cost.

Now, even taking into account both the exchange rate, and a possible further reduction in cost, I hope you can see it's still going to cost NTL between £50 and £100 million to change all the boxes.

In short, I don't think they'll be changing from Liberate anytime soon.
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