[mythtv-users] Babelbox: A potentially useful new low-cost frontend?

Ivan Kowalenko ivan.kowalenko at gmail.com
Wed Aug 16 03:02:09 UTC 2006


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On Aug 15, 2006, at 21.18, Stephen Boddy wrote:

> Cost £149 (== ~US$280)
>
> http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2006/08/15/dawe_bablebox_competition/
>
> Not a huge amount of tech info yet, but £149 would be very competitive
> compared to the cost (in the UK anyway) of a mini-itx solution.  
> However it's
> likely to be very underpowered in comparison.

Don't know what the cost of one is in the UK, but in the US, we can  
get XBoxes for about $129, which is less than half of the cost of the  
BableBox. Plus, MythTV is already running on it (somewhat slowly,  
though, due to low RAM).

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