<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 7:32 PM, Wade Maxfield <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mythtv@hotblack.co.nz">mythtv@hotblack.co.nz</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">On 24/08/09 10:12 AM, Brian Wood wrote:<br>
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On Sunday 23 August 2009 16:00:59 Jarod Wilson wrote:<br>
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Just bought an ion myself, they won't be obsoleted. In fact, you could<br>
actually use this *with* an ion system of the right type if you really<br>
wanted to. Not entirely possible to give a definitive answer on what<br>
kinds of systems *won't* be able to use this yet, as uptake will<br>
likely play a part in what form-factors the offering takes on...<br>
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Well I understand you can't get too detailed.<br>
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There are essentially two ways to play back video, the brute force software<br>
method or the specialized chip(s) hardware method.<br>
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I know nothing, but since we're all speculating here<br>
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What if it's basically the reverse of one of these (H.264 Real Time encoder on a USB stick)<br>
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<a href="http://www.elgato.com/elgato/int/mainmenu/products/Accessories/Turbo264HD/product1.en.html" target="_blank">http://www.elgato.com/elgato/int/mainmenu/products/Accessories/Turbo264HD/product1.en.html</a><br><font color="#888888">
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- Wade <br></font><div><div></div><div class="h5">
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</div></div></blockquote></div><br>That is what I was thinking as well. Kind of like a remote Sigma Designs decoder that takes content in and exposes a network or USB control interface.<br><br>Recently while I was pondering how a WDTV could be made to be a Myth frontend, it occurred to me that if it could become a slave that accepted content over the network while forwarding the IR remote keystrokes back out to the controlling frontend, all the while exposing a simple network interface for the master frontend to provide direction through it could get around the limited resources that the WDTV is saddled with.<br>
<br>Dennis<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>“The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There’s also a negative side. ”<br><br>Hunter S. Thompson, US journalist (1939 – 2005)<br>
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