[Eug-lug] Linux TV

[LinuxRocks!]

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 <kbob at jogger-egg.com>
> To: euglug at euglug.org
> Subject: Re: [Eug-lug] Linux TV
> Mail-Followup-To: euglug at euglug.org
> 
> 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>
>                                         kbob at jogger-egg.com
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