On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 08:14:36PM -0800, Bob Miller wrote: > Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2007 20:14:36 -0800 > From: Bob Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Eug-lug] Linux TV > Mail-Followup-To: [email protected] > > 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 never had a tivo :( I got the standard def DVR from DirectV, and they had stopped using tivo at that point. I like it a lot, but I dont have anything else to compare it to. I recently dropped it, and openeed it up, it has a 160Gb hard disk in it. Does tivo make Hi def units? Jamie > > > 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> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > _______________________________________________ > EUGLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
