[mythtv-users] Myth and E-Books ?

[jedi]

On Mon, Nov 01, 2010 at 07:37:46AM -0600, Brian Wood wrote:
> On Monday, November 01, 2010 05:10:39 am Corne Beerse wrote:
> 
> > 
> > For e-readers like the ipad: they should get their implementation of the
> > general frontend.
> 
> I wouldn't call an iPad an e-reader. It's a crippled general purpose machine, without enough processing power to handle 
> much in the way of video in software, and no acceleration available that would allow it to operate as a full frontend.
> 
> While you could read an e-book on an iPad, you could also do so with a Blackberry, or a Cray-2, that doesn't make either 
> of those devices an e-book reader.
> 
> The iPad tries to do so many things that it winds up doing all of them poorly. I doubt that it would make a very good Myth 
> frontend.

...actually, the iPad seems to be an overpowered book reader. So for this
particular task, I think it is less mediocre than others. The apparent
sluggishness of the Pandigital Novel is a definite turnoff when trying to
read off the thing. It's not a terribly demanding task but better specs
on the iPad seem to help.

> 
> There are several Android-based tablets with 7" to 8" screens that might do better, and they cost a LOT less than the 
> over-priced iPad. I've seen them from $100 to $200.

    It's all in the "GPU".