It cetainly is somewhat of a baffling product. <br>
<br>
I'd actually love to use one on my desk with a dual monitor
setup. If it supports simultaneous disk use and video playback,
you could probably use its harddrive as a /video partition, and use its
playback hardware for watching video on one monitor while
webbrowsing/working on your backend with the other monitor.<br>
<br>
I imagine that scenario won't move many units, though.<br>
<br>
This is the cheapest way to turn an old computer monitor into an HDTV
monitor I have seen yet, though. Hell, I might buy one on that
point alone.<br>
<br>
Old PC(Free) + Firewire Card + TVisto + 120GB HD + DCT-6200 = HDTV PVR+Monitor for under $300<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 11/15/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Rudy Zijlstra</b> <<a href="mailto:mythtv@edsons.demon.nl">
mythtv@edsons.demon.nl</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Devan Lippman wrote:<br><br>><br>><br>> On 11/15/05, *Josh Burks* <
<a href="mailto:dotnofoolin@gmail.com">dotnofoolin@gmail.com</a><br>> <mailto:<a href="mailto:dotnofoolin@gmail.com">dotnofoolin@gmail.com</a>>> wrote:<br>><br>> On 11/15/05, Tom Lichti <<a href="mailto:tom@redpepperracing.com">
tom@redpepperracing.com</a><br>> <mailto:<a href="mailto:tom@redpepperracing.com">tom@redpepperracing.com</a>>> wrote:<br>> > Joseph A. Caputo wrote:<br>> ><br>> > >Anybody know anything about this? It says it runs uClinux...
<br>> > ><br>> > ><br>> <a href="http://www.pcmicrostore.com/partdetail.aspx?q=p:10503269&SSAID=137667">http://www.pcmicrostore.com/partdetail.aspx?q=p:10503269&SSAID=137667</a><br>
> <<a href="http://www.pcmicrostore.com/partdetail.aspx?q=p:10503269&SSAID=137667">http://www.pcmicrostore.com/partdetail.aspx?q=p:10503269&SSAID=137667</a>><br>> > ><br>> > >
<br>> > No network interface is a big downside. If someone hacked the<br>> firmware<br>> > to allow USB based NIC's, it could work. Plus it doesn't come<br>> with a<br>> > hard drive, so you'd need to buy that. I'm having a hard time
<br>> figuring<br>> > out the actual market for this...<br>> ><br>><br>> Here's the offical site: <a href="http://www.galaxymetalgear.com/Tvisto.htm">http://www.galaxymetalgear.com/Tvisto.htm
</a><br>> <<a href="http://www.galaxymetalgear.com/Tvisto.htm">http://www.galaxymetalgear.com/Tvisto.htm</a>><br>><br>> Looks like it's designed to be a standalone player, where you have to<br>> connect it to your computer and download content onto it. Then you can
<br>> carry it to your tv to play back your content. Basically it's a video<br>> ipod, without the screen and a (possibily) larger hard drive.<br>><br>> Maybe people would like to load it up with their favorite media and
<br>> take it grandma's house...?<br>><br>> Josh<br>><br>><br>> Actually with a USB NIC this would make a pretty sweet diskless<br>> frontend. Not as pretty as the Roku, but it DOES support MPEG4 which
<br>> to me is big. Not sure what it takes to get myth frontend to compile<br>> against uClib or what you could run for a framebuffer (DirectFB or X).<br>><br>> --<br>> Thanks,<br>> Devan Lippman <devan at lippman dot net>
<br><br>It does not support MPEG4 H.264 which will be used for broadcasting in<br>Europe, and most likely also China.<br>_______________________________________________<br>mythtv-users mailing list<br><a href="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org">
mythtv-users@mythtv.org</a><br><a href="http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users">http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users</a><br></blockquote></div><br>