[mythtv-users] Android tablet - advanced remote control and/or frontend?

[Nick Rout]

On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 1:09 AM, Brian Wood <beww at beww.org> wrote:
> On Thursday, June 10, 2010 06:57:03 am Richard Morton wrote:
>> http://phandroid.com/2010/06/09/notion-ink-adam-pops-back-in-still-on-track
>> -for-q3-releas/
>
> Interesting, but it looks like overkill for a remote and underkill for a frontend.
>
> To be a practical frontend it would need hardware decoding for common video formats, including h264. None of the tablets
> I've seen (including the iPad) have anywhere near the power to do software decoding. Some tegra chips have this
> capability, but I'm not sure which of them this unit is using.
>
> I think we'll see many ARM-based tablets in the coming months, they seem to be the next "Netbooks".

The web page claims "Full High Definition Multimedia"
(http://www.notionink.in/adamoverview.php).

Yes this might be nice as a frontend on the can or perhaps out by the
pool [1], but really I think I prefer the 'watch tv from the sofa'
paradigm.

[1] although wireless bandwidth may be a limiter.