Digital hearing aids seem to remain pretty pricy. Is anything else using DSP more expensive than a $300 laptop? Bret Cahill
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Cost of DSP In Other Consumer Items
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On 20 Oct, 09:42, Bret Cahill <BretCah...@peoplepc.com> wrote:> Digital hearing aids seem to remain pretty pricy. �Is anything else > using DSP more expensive than a $300 laptop? > > Bret CahillHigh end digital HD TV - $2,000 Medical ultrasound - $20,000 MRI - $20,000,000
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These two are not consumer goods.>Medical ultrasound - $20,000 >MRI - $20,000,000 >This is a bit closer to what Bret asked of: Sigma SD14 digital single-lens reflex camera. It costs about 700 USD at amazon.com and as far as I know it uses ADSP-BF561 for image processing. I guess that there are much more examples in the field of embedded multimedia systems. -- Alexander
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> > Digital hearing aids seem to remain pretty pricy. �Is anything else > > using DSP more expensive than a $300 laptop? > > > Bret Cahill > > High end digital HD TV - $2,000 > Medical ultrasound - $20,000 > MRI - $20,000,000DSP isn't responsible for most of those costs. Bret Cahill
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Chris Bore wrote:> > On 20 Oct, 09:42, Bret Cahill <BretCah...@peoplepc.com> wrote: > > Digital hearing aids seem to remain pretty pricy. Is anything else > > using DSP more expensive than a $300 laptop? > > > > Bret Cahill > > High end digital HD TV - $2,000 > Medical ultrasound - $20,000 > MRI - $20,000,000Microdyne RCB-2000 telemetry reciever - $80,000 -- The movie 'Deliverance' isn't a documentary!
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Bret Cahill wrote:> Digital hearing aids seem to remain pretty pricy. Is anything else > using DSP more expensive than a $300 laptop?Is the cost of a $300 laptop different from the cost of a $300 bicycle? Jerry -- Engineering is the art of making what you want from things you can get. �����������������������������������������������������������������������
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On Tue, 20 Oct 2009 14:43:30 -0400 Jerry Avins <jya@ieee.org> wrote:> Bret Cahill wrote: > > Digital hearing aids seem to remain pretty pricy. Is anything else > > using DSP more expensive than a $300 laptop? > > Is the cost of a $300 laptop different from the cost of a $300 > bicycle? > > JerryOnly insofar as two years from now, replacing your $300 bicycle won't yet have crossed your mind. -- Rob Gaddi, Highland Technology Email address is currently out of order
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Rob Gaddi wrote:> On Tue, 20 Oct 2009 14:43:30 -0400 > Jerry Avins <jya@ieee.org> wrote: > >> Bret Cahill wrote: >>> Digital hearing aids seem to remain pretty pricy. Is anything else >>> using DSP more expensive than a $300 laptop? >> Is the cost of a $300 laptop different from the cost of a $300 >> bicycle? >> >> Jerry > > Only insofar as two years from now, replacing your $300 bicycle won't > yet have crossed your mind.You must be right. I still have the $96.50 bicycle I got in 1947. Jerry -- Engineering is the art of making what you want from things you can get. �����������������������������������������������������������������������
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On Oct 20, 10:21�am, Bret Cahill <BretCah...@peoplepc.com> wrote:> > High end digital HD TV - $2,000 > > Medical ultrasound - $20,000 > > MRI - $20,000,000 > > DSP isn't responsible for most of those costs.Welcome to engineering! DSP is used when it is less costly than the alternatives; it is a cost savings to use a DSP filter rather than a tuned seven-pole wundernetwork. DSP is responsible, in a way, for the cost difference in HDTV using coupled vanadium tuning forks and HDTV with DSP, that actually does show up on the store shelves. Alas, there ISN"T any vanadium-tuning-fork price data easily available for this comparison.
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