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New Linux PVR Box

Posted by timothy on from the improving-the-boob-tube dept.

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."

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  1. People missing the point by msanchez426 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You guys are really missing the point of this device. It's true it's similar to TIVO/ReplayTV but go and read everything in the web site:
    -This is a PVR and DVD player. The only TIVO that has this is the fancy panasonic for 1000$ that hasn't come out yet.
    -It's also a cdwriter and can be upgraded to a DVD writer in due time.
    -It's network transparent even for Windows/Mac people, no extra usb ethernet needed.
    -It's expandable without having to hack it, you can add two hard drives bought of the shelf. I'd put it in the infinite expandable category just for that. BTW the extra space will look like one volume.
    -It's standard linux, it has a web server, samba, etc. So it replaces whatever old box that you have lying around as a server, storage or whatever else.
    -You can access the interface which seems nicely done both directly and remotely via a web server.
    -As a plus it has all kinds of media playing capabilties: video, audio, photos.
    -The one linked is the analog one, there is also a digital version for 100$ bucks more.

    Finally, and very importantly they give you the SDK for producing your own software, they seem keen on open source and people developing their own little apps. So if you think a feature is missing, heck you can go and program it yourself. Isn't that the most important feature?

    That's on the positive side. The one thing that it seems to lack is replay as it records. But that should be fixable if we overflow their mailboxes with requests ;-)

    Disclaimer: I don't work for them or knew anything about them until I read this post but I've been waiting for just this since forever. It has everything I wanted in a tivo.

    Platy