Dreambox DM7000: Hackable DVR

An anonymous reader copies-and-pastes "The Dreambox DM7000 from Dream-Multimedia-Tv (DMM) is a $395 Linux-based digital radio and digital TV (DVB) satellite (or cable) receiver with digital video recorder (DVR) functions and PC connectivity. It is implemented using IBM's STB04500 set-top box chipset, which provides the necessary DVB functions like transport stream demultiplexing and MPEG2 decoding inexpensively. A minimalistic, GPL'd Linux-based software implementation has made the DM7000 popular with Linux programmers and TV device hackers."

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Did they like read minds or something?

[silicon not in the v]

This sounds like the absolute Slashbot's dream. I can just see the engineers who designed this lurking on an Ask Slashdot forum on "What should the ideal set top box be capable of?"and writing down the system features list from user comments.

* It should run Linux, of course.
* It has to connect to my PC so I can write all those recorded movies to DVD-R.
* Oh yeah, and a satellite or cable decoder, so I can HAX0RS it and "share" free movies and stuff.
* And I'm sure the hard drive won't be big enough, so I should be able to put in a much bigger drive.

Re:Still doesn't support HDTV *sigh*

[Anonymous Coward]

all I want for Christmas is a girl with no gag reflex...

Is that for when she first meets you?

Re:Wait a minute..

[JamesP]

It can store video on an internal hard drive (not included),

But thats like saying (car ad): It can go places with an internal motor (not included)

I mean, I can always get inside and listen to the radio, but...