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- taylorhayward, on 10/12/2007, -7/+2http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2006/9/20lloyd.html
- Hostile, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7I have one of the beta units and its great! The status is a very early alpha and has tons of bugs but its fun to tinker around with it because its linux.
- akhepcat, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4This looks pretty sweet.. makes me wish i wasn't on a budget to get rid of debt.
/me sighs longingly for new toys - treed, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2thinkgeek already ran out.
- fjvwing, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Seems to be a DVR without a harddisk. I guess you record directly on some form of flash media.
- negativefx, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5*lightbulb* or plug a USB HDD into the device........................................
- spisska, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4You're probably meant to mount a remote storage volume onto it with the ethernet port.
It could be a very worthwile piece of equipment if it could act as a Myth frontend + slave backend -- recording direct to MPEG4 and playing back MPEG2, MPEG4, and audio.
But of course to do this it needs to run a MySQL client, an X server, a windowing system, and of course MythTV.
With these specs, I'm not sure that will be possible. - covracer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Regarding the hard drive--from what I understood when the P.R. guy from Neuros talked to the Charlottesville Unix Users Group over Skype--the second generation of development models have hard drives, the end-product transcoder+streamer will use a small flash drive and a hard drive-based portable media player will be available in the distant future.
- felderado, on 10/12/2007, -7/+1We've already got Tivo, why are these people trying to reinvent the wheel? You simply won't beat Tivo. Tivo is like the Microsoft of DVRs.
And, well, I run MythTV.
See where this is going?- jman8888, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Most people dont have Tivo nowadays.
- input, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6With it completely open source they will get more features.
They have a "bounty" for people who code these items:
(From thinkgeek product page.)
"""
YouTube or Google video Browser
Bounty: $1000
Flickr Photo Browser
Bounty: $600
Implement a wireless remote using a WiFi PDA (or PSP) as the remote.
Bounty: $500
TiVo style functionality for radio. Hook up the OSD to a FM/AM or Satellite receiver and do timed recordings or FF/RW and Pause Live Radio. Bounty: $700
Voip on the OSD. Plug a USB phone into the OSD and make calls without touching any of your PCs.
Bounty: $500
""" - spengy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4I will never own a Tivo. This, I would think about.
- andreo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Tivo is actually pretty closed to tinkering around with. Yeah you can do it (or maybe used to be able to do it, the last one that I made changes to was the Phillips 6000). I think they still let you add hard drives to it. But they really don't want you messing around with the software. They don't want you adding functionality to the device either.
Heck, even Microsoft's Media Center is more open then Tivo is. There are tons of plug-ins for Media Center and Microsoft doesn't care one lick about you running them.
Plus, if you don't pay for a lifetime subscription or monthly subscription, you have no more features on the Tivo. - nofxjunkee, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2RTFA, they say they have no plans to do this all commercially for the average consumer. It's a hobby thing.
- wyngnut, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2WTF - Composite video out only?
Talking about a ***** product, my 5 year old TiVos have at least S-Video and my 5 year old XBOX (XBMC) does 480i.
Pffft. - mightme, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1I don't have Tivo, I will never have Tivo. It is very cool, but whatever happend to VHS tapes and so on? :P
- UpTheToon, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0hmmmm... I dont get it.
So does this connect to an output (ie TV) to play back the files you have recorded on your chosen media? It doens't seem to have many video out options.
Or am I missing its true use? - pcheaven2k, on 10/12/2007, -5/+1"Implement a heated/vibrating pocket pussy that syncronizes with what ever pr0n your watching.
Bounty: $50,000"- amoirae, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I thought you were already providing that service!
I guess someone forgot to digg when you ceased your philanthropic generosity to the geek nation.
*sigh*
- amoirae, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I thought you were already providing that service!
- fdd2k, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0Xbox based XBMC can do 540p and 1080i, though it claims to be able to do 720p as well. The hardware is not as powerful as xbox either. Considering the price of an xbox now, it is not necessary a good value. But xbox cannot record video. It is hard to believe that Microsoft is so dumb not including this feature in xbox 360 while selling their MCE system. Otherwise, I don't see any future of Tivo.
- MichiganJeep, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2There's been some great hacks for my Neuros MP3 player due to the open source community. Hopefully this follows that same pattern.
- drag, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3It's not designed to replace your TiVO or to compete with Mythtv or MCE PC.
It's designed for recording shows for your PSP or other handheld digital device capable of playing back video. Also for those you can do playback onto a telivision and probably set recording times and such.
That's all.
You people saying how it doesn't compete with a TiVO are completely missing the point. It's not designed for that. It can be used for it, but obviously you aren't going to buy it for that.
Just read the f-ng article for once. First paragraph:
"Neuros Technology is offering Linux hackers first dibs on beta units of its next-gen DVR (digital video recorder). The Linux-powered device can record MPEG-4 video from cable or broadcast TV, DVDs, etc., and transfer it to portable media players, or serve as a network music player."
Instead of having to download the file onto your computer and re-encode it for playback.. this thing does it all easily as a standalone device. Simple, small, self contained. No DRM. No having to install a bunch of software or buy a TV capture card.
As far as Neuros goes.. They are one of the more kick-ass companies out there. There aren't many hardware companies that 'get' linux and 'get' open source and the possiblities that opens up for their customers, but this company does.- sixdays, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Nowhere does the article explicitly state that it is for handhelds only. It only says that it has the ability to transfer streams to your handheld.
- drag, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1it is not for handhelds only.
It's mostly just for handhelds. It is a digital video recorder and it can serve as a music server. But it's not designed to replace a tivo.
Nowere does it even hint that it's designed to replace a TiVo, yet for some reason people here and on slashdot had that conclusion immediately. Go figure.
- itanshi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1now this is what i'm talking about, i want a method of creating a true linux web tv hybrid
a way to create tv shows and tv channels near as easy as it is to create websites, blogs, pod/vod casts etc
to lessen the corporate monopoly of the airwaves as we have allready done on the internet and growing in the media news realm
mm, this is at least a step in that direction. it can be done
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