2008-09-10, 20:22
This system sounds like crap.
It would be nice if we could gather our own hardware requirements and make a commitment to a hardware vendor who would build the unit at an agreed price if for example we could get a certain number of persons committed to buying this unit.
Features I require as a minimum for killer mediacenter:
* Small Form Factor
* Silent
* HDMI 1.3a
* Capable of playing 1920x1080p content at 24 fps via HDMI
* Outputting HD sound formats via HDMI
* USB Port
* Gigabit NIC
* Optical drive. Possibly a blu-ray drive for future support
* (Optinal harddrive possible for those who don't stream)
Skrew SD outputs to keep cost down. No composite, s-video or scart outputs, but I think we need component output and optical/coax for some users to be interrested.
Skrew tuners. Software can be written to make other boxes record and stream live TV like done with the Tuxbox code by Geminiserver.
I think a realistic price would be $700-800
My Tvix 6500 actually cover most of these requirements, but it lacks an important feature... XBMC!
It would be nice if we could gather our own hardware requirements and make a commitment to a hardware vendor who would build the unit at an agreed price if for example we could get a certain number of persons committed to buying this unit.
Features I require as a minimum for killer mediacenter:
* Small Form Factor
* Silent
* HDMI 1.3a
* Capable of playing 1920x1080p content at 24 fps via HDMI
* Outputting HD sound formats via HDMI
* USB Port
* Gigabit NIC
* Optical drive. Possibly a blu-ray drive for future support
* (Optinal harddrive possible for those who don't stream)
Skrew SD outputs to keep cost down. No composite, s-video or scart outputs, but I think we need component output and optical/coax for some users to be interrested.
Skrew tuners. Software can be written to make other boxes record and stream live TV like done with the Tuxbox code by Geminiserver.
I think a realistic price would be $700-800
My Tvix 6500 actually cover most of these requirements, but it lacks an important feature... XBMC!