フレームマイスター Framemister Xrgb mini/ English firmware/39000 yen shipped

It's not their part to outsource, the IC design belongs to Marvell. Copying designs is a good way to get your company in legal trouble, let alone blacklisted with vendors.

It takes a lot of cash to fire up a semiconductor fab, especially with your own design. I highly doubt a company like Micomsoft which is doing low volume business has the resources to design their own processors, let alone get them into production. It makes more sense for them to use off the shelf stuff.

There currently isn't a suitable drop in replacement, which makes sense seeing how what the framemeister is doing isn't a concern of tv manufacturers anymore. The big players don't care about people using old analog devices anymore, this isn't 2006.

Maybe at some point someone can implement a FPGA with framemeister like levels of features, but that's not a simple undertaking.

 

They really are a tiny company so it would be hard to imagine them making their own chips or doing an fpga method. Keep in mind their only other noteritety was making hardcore controllers for 16 bit systems. Through they were the only ones to make a mega drive adapter that would let you use S-video without modding.

Their xrgb/framemiester line has always been a bit of a niche thing. They didn't really start commending serious demand until a lot of YouTube channels were using them for capturing quality footage. For a long time only place I knew they sold any of their products in the US was importer ncsx.

I'm sure the other difficulty in making a new one would be proper 4K support which would really be a bit of an undertaking.

 

Yeah I guess all that makes sense. I am not keen on all the workings of all that stuff, so I didn't think it through. Real shame. I wonder what the longevity of the device is...maybe I should buy two - to have a spare - especially since the jerks on eBay are selling for 800-3000.

 

Well, they're asking 800 - 3K. I don't think they're selling at that price. An actual auction I saw ended over 500. Which, is still crazy considering you can preorder.

As for the Framemeister itself, although the case feels pretty cheap, I haven't really heard of any failures hardware wise, and there's enough of them out there

 

Most of the ones are not best offer though..so how would they be selling less? I assumed they used to sell them cheaper and raised the price. Maybe some of them are placeholders and the actual item isn't available. I msg'd nearly all of them and only one of them replied though.

One that listed it for 994 buy it now, I offered 400 awhile back and he replied with 990 counter offer. So yeah... ridiculous.

 

Sent you a PM.

 

I have one and absolutely LOVE it. I also want to thank Mark for all his help, he's been like a very gracious Santa hooking people here up and I'm sure he hasn't made money to equal the time he has put in helping people here. So thanks again for everything!

That aside, what do people think about having a backup? I would say mine seems quite reliable, but there's always the paranoia in me! Given the amount I have thrown into my collection, I think I will probably try to get on the list.

 

Yea I just mentioned above I almost feel like getting 2 of them. I am so impatient right now. I am on the waiting list but my redo game room project is on hold right now until I get a Framemeister.

Is Mark = Yakumo? (I am new here)

 

Yes Yakumo is Mark.

 

Thanks

 

http://assemblergames.com/l/threads/framemeister-supply-issues.64447/

I made a thread for discussing the framemeister availability issues.

 

I sent a PM to try to score a preorder on on of the last few. It has been a few days now, and I am wondering, should I have posted that I wanted one in this thread first? Or is Yakumo just enjoying the holiday.

 

PMing him is correct - he is probably on holiday

 

Would love to get on the waiting list! PM'd

 

I'm on holiday guys. Please don't send PMs as I will no reply to them just yet. I have no idea how many units I can get or the actual cost. Once I know I'll be posting here and taking orders. All orders must be paid up front too.

 

prices explode at the moment, i read something next revision comes on 31.01.2017..

 

There was one store on Amazon selling the Framemeister for a whopping 460,000 yen! That is nuts. The basic price is 38,000 yen.

 

2 units just in.
EDIT - SORRY, BOTH NOW SOLD
50,000 yen shipped via EMS. Yes, I know the price is up but that's because these cost more to get in.

Strictly first come first served.

Payment in yen as a gift via PayPal only.
PM me if interested. As mentioned, first come first served.

 

Are they gonna be priced as 50.000 until the stock is over or is this just the 2 that you got now?

With the pound staying like this I can see my dream of owning one as over. Shifting gears towards the OSCC probably.

 

I don't know. The suppliers are charging more as they know it's the last batch. The bulk stock is due sometime in February but I can't say how much thy will be or how many I can get. The two I got this week were kind of a lucky deal as I've bought so many from my suplier over the years. There's still a nubnut selling them on Amazon Japan for a stupid 400,000 yen! That seller is crazy if he thinks anyone will pay that.