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To: etchmeister who wrote (16921)	12/22/2005 12:35:16 AM
From: etchmeister	Respond to of 25522

Sling Media’s Slingbox costs US$83.60 to make, says iSuppli Printer friendly Comments Email to a friend Latest news Press release; Eric Mah, DigiTimes.com [Thursday 22 December 2005] The combined Bill of Materials (BOM) for Sling Media’s Slingbox, a device that allows users to watch any cable, satellite, or personal video recorder (PVR) programming from an Internet-connected PC, amounts to US$83.60, according to research firm iSuppli. The Slingbox consists of a small box that sits atop a television set that is essentially a small tuner and an audio/video decoder chip with an Ethernet interface, said the research firm. The Slingbox converts video and audio signals into MPEG data that can be streamed over the Internet and received by any Internet-connected PCs, noted iSuppli, adding that the system allows users to remotely control A/V equipment, such as Digital Video Recorders (DVRs). Together, components and other integrated circuits inside the Slingbox amount to a total cost of $48.51, representing 58 percent of the total BOM of the product, iSuppli estimates. The research firm indicated that the system and its power supply have a total BOM of $74.96, and a manufacturing and test cost of $8.64, but that the figure does not include some other, perhaps significant, costs. “Beyond the hardware costs, the Slingbox carries significant up-front costs as well as software, design and other Non-Recurring Engineering (NRE) charges that Sling Media must recoup,” said Andrew Rassweiler, teardown services manager and senior analyst for iSuppli. “Because of this, one should not conclude that margins are very high on the Slingbox based on the ratio of material costs to retail selling price.” Slingbox component cost breakdown Component Cost Texas Instruments TMS320DM641GNZ digital signal processor US$22 Philips SAA7173 analog TV video/stereo decoder US$7 Philips FQ1238 front-end module for the tuner US$6 Micron Technology MT48LC4M32B2TG7 128Mbit SDRAM US$6 AMD./Spansion S29JL064H90TAI00 64Mbit NOR flash memory US$4 Source: iSuppli, compiled by DigiTimes.com, December, 2005 Ot: None dispute that the Singapore Sling was originally created by Mr. Ngiam Tong Boon for the Raffles Hotel in Singapore. However that is where the agreements end. The exact date is in question, with some people claiming it was in 1915, some 1913, while the hotel itself claims that it was created sometime prior to 1910. There is also plenty of disagreement as to how closely the current version of this drink that is served at Raffles is to what was originally served. Apparently the original recipe was lost and forgotten sometime in the 1930's, and the drink that they currently serve at the hotel's Long Bar (see recipe below) is based on memories of former bartenders, and some written notes that they were able to discover.