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

Brian Wood beww at beww.org
Thu Jun 10 23:36:14 UTC 2010


On Thursday, June 10, 2010 05:28:16 pm jedi wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 09:15:15AM +1200, Nick Rout wrote:
> > 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).
> 
>      That doesn't mean anything. It's like "all natural".

I figure "all natural" means "not created in a breeder reactor", and nothing more.



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