New Linux PVR Box

An anonymous reader points to this product from Interact-TV, known as Telly, writing "Cool little box. PVR, stores photos, burns VCDs or DVDs (if you get a DVD burner), serves up stored content on your home network, nice gui, works with some satellite and digital cable boxes, 2.4.18 kernel. Freevo or mythTV can do about the same thing but this one is ready out of the box."

Comments

Okay ... NO

[SuperDuG]

$899???

Hell I can build an "almost" top of the line PC for that. The software doesn't look all that impressive and it is still a PC that doesn't look like an entertainment center applaince. Reading the specs of a VIA C3 sub 1 GHz processor with 256 megs of 2100 Ram. This thing is a $200 PC for almost a grand.

But it runs linux, wait no, that's free.

Seems like quite the not good deal ...

Re:Okay ... NO

[mr. methane]

A while ago I might have said the same thing.. but to a lot of people, time is more valuable. I've had a PVR since they were pretty new (3 years+?) and even though I paid something like $699 for it, I consider it a terrific buy.

I figure I watch 10 hours of TV a week. Probably 7 hours are stations with commercials. 20 minutes per hour X 7 hours, that's 2 hours and 20 minutes a week I *don't* spend watching tampax ads.

In other words, in last three years, I've avoided wasting 400 hours on commercials. I figure my time is worth about $50 an hour, so that's $20k in "free time" I've had available to do other things.

Valuable things.

Like posting rants on slashdot.

Cool.. but my Xbox does that as well...

[mianbao]

Cool.. but my Xbox does that as well...

Re:Telly�

[Anonymous Coward]

Telly?

Bad choice for a trademarked name?
Here in the UK, "telly" is the generic term for television.

Windows?

Bad choice for a trademarked name? Sure.

The Be All End All

[felonious]

Why hasn't a company come out with an adult version of the PVR?

Name it the "Porn-O-Tron" or "Porn-O-Matic"

Include a subscription business model with various channels of varying fetishes, etc. and market it as just that. Tie it all together and the customers will flood the place...ok bad pun but you get the idea.

You could even tie in various adult products that plug into the box and someone on the other end could operate them for $19 a minute. Virtual Spanktravision might even be a better name or sub-brand as long as it doesn't canabalize the main brand.

Porn is BIG business and why hasn't a visionary other than myself come up with this?

Re:The Be All End All

[glwtta]

Include a subscription business model with various channels of varying fetishes, etc. and market it as just that.

Um... It's called the Internet?

Real reason why it's $899 ...

[Anonymous Coward]

• $75 for the hard drive
  
• $25 for the chassis
  
• $799 for the rights to use the name "Telly"!!
  
  Who loves ya Baby?
  
  

Re:Telly�

[kawika]

Here in the States, middle-aged nerds like me think of England mostly in terms of Monty Python. When I heard the name and saw it's Linux based, I immediately thought of the "There's a penguin on the telly" sketch. In this case, there's a penguin IN the Telly!

Re:PVR pricing needs work

[giberti]

Tivo2 supports Ethernet. And with the new "Home Media Option" you can even listen to your MP3 collection and surf your digital photo library. Of course at an extra $99 (one time charge) also gives you the ability to add to your play lists remotely... but at $300 (lifetime subscription) + $350 (hardware) + $99 (home media) + $50 (usb 802.11b wireless) + $50 and up (cable bill monthly) why the hell do I drive a piece of crap car again?

Re:Price prohibitive

[evilviper]

Until these things cost the same as a VCR I couldn't possibly justify paying the price.

Well, since VCRs cost $40, have fun waiting. Other people on this planet are far more realistic...

Personally, I wouldn't get it until it gets some more features, and the price drops to about 1/3rd the price, but at least that's a realistic possibility.