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

Nick Rout nick at rout.co.nz
Wed Aug 16 04:36:37 UTC 2006


On Wed, 16 Aug 2006 03:18:44 +0100
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.

"The other drawback is that there's no memory management unit - it really is a basic ARM chip, a Sigma 8610 video controller, 64MB of RAM and 128MB Flash, running uCLinux."

Does myth run on ARM?

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Nick Rout <nick at rout.co.nz>



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