Mr O wrote:
> What features what your TV have that require linux? Image viewer
> / media playback from Memory Stick? ATSC tuner w/ mpeg decoder
> using linux?
I would assume they use Linux to listen to the remote, drive the
on-screen menus, manage the video and audio processing hardware,
stuff like that.
I'm planning to get a Mac Mini, hook it up to the TV's HDMI input, and
run Front Row on it. I'm waiting until they ship with Leopard*, and
irrationally hoping that they'll have Blu-Ray or HD-DVD drives by
then. Maybe I'll buy an external drive if they don't.
BTW, we also got a DIRECTV HD DVR, since HD DirecTiVos are nearing end
of life. What a steaming pile! It's hard to imagine anyone who'd
spent an hour with a TiVo being able to conceive of a UI that bad.
It's already crashed once, too. (Yeah, I'm biased, but it really is a
box of feces.) We're considering returning it and getting by with the
standard definition TiVo.
> I would like to get my hands on a Toshiba HD-A1 HD-DVD player
> and dd the 'drive' in it. Would make a perfect HTPC for media
> playback. Personally just not interested in tuners just want to
> have my DVD library at my fingertips and be able to upscale the
> picture.
Sounds like fun.
* What happens when Apple runs out of cats? The only big cats they
haven't used yet are Bobcat, Lion, Lynx, and Ocelot.
--
Bob Miller K<bob>
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