[mythtv-users] Ideal Myth Frontend HW? Infinium Labs Phantom Console

Jeff C myth at express.tc
Thu May 13 09:31:10 EDT 2004


Saw this on www.gizmodo.com

Thought it would make an ideal Myth front end:

Infinium Labs creeps tentatively out of the morass of lawsuits and
speculation today to finally reveal some hard facts about the machine that
sees itself less as a gaming console and more of an interface to a gaming
experience. Billing itself as a "game receiver," the Phantom (now with an
AMD Athlon XP 2500+ and Nvidia GeForce FX 5700 Ultra, 256MB of RAM, and a
40GB hard drive) will be included for free to two-year subscribers of
Infinium's gaming network ($29.95 a month), where premium games can be
downloaded for an additional cost or rented for around $5. The hardware is
also available without subscription for $200 (bring on the hacks!)

Infinium Labs plans to formally display the console at this year's E3
(starts tomorrow). It's interesting to notice from the pictures that there
is only a single USB port up front. I guess the included game controllers
and keyboards will just have to daisy-chain.

http://www.infiniumlabs.com/

-Jeff




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