Goodbye to Devialet - after upgrade program

[octaviars]

The Expert has the ‘EVO platform’, the D-Premier does not.  It is the EVO platform that allows ‘constant improvement via free, regular updates, for ever improved features and performance.’  The point here being is that the EVO platform exists on the Expert range and continues on the Pro, it is logical therefore to conclude that new features offered for the Pro will also work on the Expert, streamer board excepted.

Great post from Confused as usual. (Sorry, no bonus points, you've got far too many already )

I wonder to what extent EVO will be the basis of future developments, after they add the 'Devialet OS'?  I got the impression it was going to run on the streamer board, but perhaps the term 'streamer board' is just convenient, and could really become the central processing hub on the Pro range. To my mind, adding 'an OS' could potentially signify a change in direction of features being added there rather than through EVO.  But I don't understand D hardware enough - maybe the DSP stuff always comes under the EVO banner, and connections to the outside world come under the 'OS' banner?

Right now my hunch is this pro range may be a bigger design change than previously, and so supporting the old line with new features will become more difficult. Also there's the question of which platform the firmware gets optimised for - will each range get equal attention or is there a chance the Pro's will take priority?

This is to me one of the problems with the upgrade that we really dont know what we get or can expect of the streamerboard. Some say they dont care about this as they run other solutions but to me if I pay to get my D400 upgraded in this cost Devialet have included the streamerboard and then I want it to be a nice feature that is something useful.......ROON