Many moons ago M planned a 5 series video switcher - I seem to remember.

A stand-alone Meridian video scaler to replace any faroudja hardware and provide "state of the art" video capablities must look a good option and appear to get more people to buy Meridian. Once they have one piece of kit they'll get drawn in to buy more and more. Whatever they put in this stuff we all know it's highly infectious and only cured by spending more money.

So the scaling goes out of G91/98 (or at least their replacements) into a new box. The 800 can fit the scaling inside (appropriate for a flagship product) if they can make the boards the right size.

That's the way I'd expect to pan out. The more they build into 1 box (g91 anyone) the more difficult it is to keep it modular and provide sensible updates and upgrades. The more they split it out the easier this becomes (unless the boxes are really large and designed for card swapping as in the 8xx series).

Just my 2 cents.

Chris

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