Re: Home Theatre computer

2009-11-11 Thread Oron Peled
On Tuesday, 10 בNovember 2009 10:09:00 Tzafrir Cohen wrote: The components are pretty standard: http://www.fit-pc.com/web/fit-pc2/specifications/ Specifically (quting from there) - Display Graphics: Intel GMA500 graphics acceleration Full hardware video acceleration of H.264,

Re: Home Theatre computer

2009-11-10 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Mon, Nov 09, 2009 at 10:36:10PM +0200, Noam Rathaus wrote: Hi, I can't understand one thing, people hate it when I, unintentionally, promote Apple, but find it unstrange when there is apparent lack of a decent device which compares to Apple's device. I don't say go with close source,

Re: Home Theatre computer

2009-11-10 Thread ik
http://ik.homelinux.org/ On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 10:36 PM, Noam Rathaus no...@beyondsecurity.comwrote: Hi, I can't understand one thing, people hate it when I, unintentionally, promote Apple, but find it unstrange when there is apparent lack of a decent device which compares to Apple's

Re: Home Theatre computer

2009-11-10 Thread Amos Shapira
2009/11/10 geoffrey mendelson geoffreymendel...@gmail.com: On Nov 9, 2009, at 10:36 PM, Noam Rathaus wrote: There are US solutions that are non-Apple to do what I am looking for, but I can't find them in Israel. Apple bases their operating system on BSD and it is open source. Their GUI

Re: Home Theatre computer

2009-11-10 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On Nov 10, 2009, at 12:03 PM, Amos Shapira wrote: You must be replying to my post and as usual you give reveal great knowledge of behind the scenes. But your explanation doesn't sit with the difference between the experience of set-top (or built-in) digital receiver, which switches digital

Re: Home Theatre computer

2009-11-10 Thread Amos Shapira
2009/11/10 geoffrey mendelson geoffreymendel...@gmail.com: I don't see this. My experience is with an Apex DVB stick T-328b which seems to be made by Geniatech. It is currently only supported in Windows, it has a different tuner than the ones supported by Linux and the Mac commerical programs.

Re: Home Theatre computer

2009-11-09 Thread Tom Goren
somewhat blasphemous to promote apple products on a linux mailing list... the fit-pc2 looks awesome, i am already making inquiries now, interested in buying one myself. tom. 2009/11/6 Marc Volovic marc.volo...@swiftouch.com Yes, there is such a unit. It is called Mac Mini, iMac or Mac Pro,

Re: Home Theatre computer

2009-11-09 Thread sammy ominsky
On 09/11/2009, at 21:21, Tom Goren wrote: somewhat blasphemous to promote apple products on a linux mailing list... To be fair, they *can* run linux :) --sambo ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il

Re: Home Theatre computer

2009-11-09 Thread Ohad Levy
note that the graphical drivers for Linux are questionable, I think that it will not work with HD quality under recent Linux Distributions and applications (e.g. Mythbuntu 9.10 ) Ohad 2009/11/10 Tom Goren motne...@gmail.com somewhat blasphemous to promote apple products on a linux mailing

Re: Home Theatre computer

2009-11-09 Thread Amos Shapira
2009/11/10 Ohad Levy ohadl...@gmail.com: note that the graphical drivers for Linux are questionable, I think that it will not work with HD quality under recent Linux Distributions and applications (e.g. Mythbuntu 9.10 ) Another point to take note is that someone told me that switching channels

Re: Home Theatre computer

2009-11-09 Thread Noam Rathaus
Hi, I can't understand one thing, people hate it when I, unintentionally, promote Apple, but find it unstrange when there is apparent lack of a decent device which compares to Apple's device. I don't say go with close source, I don't say use proprietary products, but at least give me a decent

Re: Home Theatre computer

2009-11-09 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On Nov 9, 2009, at 10:36 PM, Noam Rathaus wrote: There are US solutions that are non-Apple to do what I am looking for, but I can't find them in Israel. Apple bases their operating system on BSD and it is open source. Their GUI is not, but there is a decent port of X Windows, and a

Re: Home Theatre computer

2009-11-07 Thread Marc Volovic
Yes, there is such a unit. It is called Mac Mini, iMac or Mac Pro, whichever is your poison. ---MAV Marc. Volovic +972-54-467-6764 marcvolo...@me.com Sent from my iPhone On Nov 6, 2009, at 14:29, Amos Shapira amos.shap...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/11/6 Noam Rathaus no...@beyondsecurity.com: