[mythtv-users] Free Akimbo STB for Myth Frontend in Silicon Valley

[Brian Wood]

On Tuesday 27 January 2009 17:51:31 Brad Templeton wrote:
> I have a spare "Akimbo" set top box.  It as a locked unit in
> the old days but people have been able to put various linux
> flavours, and use it as a mythtv front end.  (Or backend if you put
> a card in it.)
>
> http://www.settoplinux.org/index.php?title=Akimbo_AP1200:Howto_MythTV_on_th
>e_AP1200
>
> Nice little box.  Low power, has ether, 2 USB, svideo out, suitable to
> be a fileserver or other stuff too.  But I want only HD these days.
>
> If you are willing to come pick it up in south Sunnyvale, it's yours, free.

I have one of these. I have already salvaged the HDD and a few other useful 
parts. I don't think anyone ever got the proprietary decoder hardware to work 
under Linux.

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