Michael Drons wrote: > I tried the mvix, and was not happy with it. That's too bad. I mentioned it in a post about a two months ago and it was at the top of my list for ready-built media appliances.
So what didn't you like about it? Every week I see one or two new media appliances hitting the market. There is a lot of them. It's really too bad none of the manufacturers have woken up to the idea of including a MythTV client. > Then invested in a Intel Atom single core system. With or without an ION chipset? I didn't think the Atom CPUs by themselves were adequate for HD. I've read a few reports of good results for ION hardware. I see local retailers are selling the ION-based Acer AspireRevo for $200: http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/07/acer-launches-first-nvidia-ion-based-nettop-aspirerevo/ I haven't yet mined the MythTV user's list (or XBMC list) for reports of this specific hardware being used successfully. I assume at minimum it needs to be supplemented with an IR receiver and remote. I've also ran across the Beagle Board: http://beagleboard.org/ which supposedly can do HD playback: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdnDpH3543Q http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayFsiQ88wFU but once you start supplementing the $150 board with packaging and peripherals to make a complete set top box, you're probably better off with something like the AspireRevo. (If they were priced at $50, they'd be far more interesting. You could stuff one inside a sub-$100 20" LCD panel to make a jumbo digital picture frame.) It's using an ARM-based CPU running at 600 MHz. Supposedly ARM is working on ramping up its CPU speeds to 2 GHz and will be going after Intel in the netbook market. There may be some useful media player spinoffs from that. What software are you running on it? A full MythTV front-end? -Tom ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Join us December 9, 2009 for the Red Hat Virtual Experience, a free event focused on virtualization and cloud computing. Attend in-depth sessions from your desk. Your couch. Anywhere. http://p.sf.net/sfu/redhat-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ Mvpmc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mvpmc-users mvpmc wiki: http://mvpmc.wikispaces.com/
