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A Hackable Media Player For HDTV
An anonymous reader writes "Embedded Linux and an open, hacker-friendly architecture power the world's first high definition media player, the $499 Roku HD1000. The brainchild of ReplayTV inventor Anthony Wood, the device could touch off a cottage industry of third-party applications and media packs that work with its Linux-based OS and user-friendly media APIs. Out of the box, the HD1000 can stream MPEG and MPEG2, play music, loop JPEGs, and more to an HDTV -- all at the same time. Roku is selling "Art Packs" of everything from museum-quality art to hot-rod cars as memory cards that work with the device. And, the company will release a C/C++ SDK for the HD1000 before 2004. Finally, there's something to actually show on your $5,000 54-inch plasma TV or 37-inch LCD TV." (Roku is also one of the companies mentioned in an earlier posting about using hi-def displays as digital art galleries).
"MUSEUM QUALITY ART"!??!
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot.
We all know this is going to used exclusively for porn; you aren't fooling anyone.
How am I supposed to spend all that money on a fyoot-schar tv and then only spend 500 on the box? Where are the bragging rights?
I need to spend, dammit.
"We shall grapple with the ineffable, and see if we may not eff it after all." - Douglas Adams
My neighbor just bought a $4000 Plasma from Gateway. I tried to find the nicest way to tell him it sucked. I said it was mature technology. Was I being too nice?
Someone hates these cans.
"High altitudes can affect the performance of plasma displays because the gas held inside each pixel is stressed, and has to work harder to perform."
Pity the hard-working gas, held captive inside an eeny-weeny-tiny pixel cell.
Flourescent (adj): smelling like ground wheat.
Where is the slashdot credit card with karma points for every purchase.
I paid cash for the following, but don't think I wouldn't have used the slashdot card so I could troll more often.
First it was the netpliance
Then the apex dvd player that plays mp3s
then the tivo and tivonet
now it's a box to display hdtv stuff without a computer
cool, but I think this has more in common with the netpliance than with the other three which are still used.
For its price I would expect more, like something to read straight from a dvd, harddrive or something, no wait that would be useful.
Something doesn't add up. If linux costs $699, then how can they sell the whole thing for $499?!
if the machine doesn't have enough memory to guarantee that you can use the block returned from malloc(), why does it pretend to?
It's kind of like airlines overbooking seats.
In Linux 2.7, an improved malloc() will return memory 4 hours later and also give you a free voucher good for memory allocation anywhere that your computer can fly.
"Provided by the management for your protection."
Get yer lingo straight, partner :P otherwise you'll be ridiculed by the youngsters.
According to my 14-year-old neighbor(who keeps stepping on my rosebushes...YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE, PUNK!) you "chip" that sweet used Civic that you just bought, but you "mod" your Xbox.
3000+ comments meta-modded. 0 mod points awarded.
Lesson for other meta-suckers: Don't believe the hype!
Where's the Firewire? What about Bluetooth? USB would be ok, I guess, for the Intel-based weenies, but not very useful.
The Interface Nazi