I'd actually love to use one on my desk with a dual monitor setup. If it supports simultaneous disk use and video playback, you could probably use its harddrive as a /video partition, and use its playback hardware for watching video on one monitor while webbrowsing/working on your backend with the other monitor.
I imagine that scenario won't move many units, though.
This is the cheapest way to turn an old computer monitor into an HDTV monitor I have seen yet, though. Hell, I might buy one on that point alone.
Old PC(Free) + Firewire Card + TVisto + 120GB HD + DCT-6200 = HDTV PVR+Monitor for under $300
On 11/15/05, Rudy Zijlstra <
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Devan Lippman wrote:
>
>
> On 11/15/05, *Josh Burks* < [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:
>
> On 11/15/05, Tom Lichti < [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:
> > Joseph A. Caputo wrote:
> >
> > >Anybody know anything about this? It says it runs uClinux...
> > >
> > >
> http://www.pcmicrostore.com/partdetail.aspx?q=p:10503269&SSAID=137667
> <http://www.pcmicrostore.com/partdetail.aspx?q=p:10503269&SSAID=137667>
> > >
> > >
> > No network interface is a big downside. If someone hacked the
> firmware
> > to allow USB based NIC's, it could work. Plus it doesn't come
> with a
> > hard drive, so you'd need to buy that. I'm having a hard time
> figuring
> > out the actual market for this...
> >
>
> Here's the offical site: http://www.galaxymetalgear.com/Tvisto.htm
> <http://www.galaxymetalgear.com/Tvisto.htm>
>
> Looks like it's designed to be a standalone player, where you have to
> connect it to your computer and download content onto it. Then you can
> carry it to your tv to play back your content. Basically it's a video
> ipod, without the screen and a (possibily) larger hard drive.
>
> Maybe people would like to load it up with their favorite media and
> take it grandma's house...?
>
> Josh
>
>
> Actually with a USB NIC this would make a pretty sweet diskless
> frontend. Not as pretty as the Roku, but it DOES support MPEG4 which
> to me is big. Not sure what it takes to get myth frontend to compile
> against uClib or what you could run for a framebuffer (DirectFB or X).
>
> --
> Thanks,
> Devan Lippman <devan at lippman dot net>
It does not support MPEG4 H.264 which will be used for broadcasting in
Europe, and most likely also China.
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