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A Hackable Media Player For HDTV

Posted by timothy on from the lacks-tuner-and-hard-drive dept.

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).

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  1. hackable by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    great, so sir hacksalot will 3 this cool device!

  2. Birthday! :-) by m_schnei · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Hi!

    Today it's my 2^5th birthday, and in order to celebrate this round (in nerd's terms) anniversary I have decided to slashdot myself! :-)

    So feel free to send me your congratulations to

    m_schnei@gmx.de
    I will try to thank every of your mails AFAP (whatever that means... 8^D)!

    Bye, Michael

    --
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  3. tsarkon reports ive hacked many a HDTV in my day. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    yeah i do it all the time. i make the parts from breadbaords and radio shack stuff and solder and make stuff that turns my hdtv into a free thing. its so cool.

    9 steps to greasing your anus for Yoda Doll Insertion!
    v 3.95.0
    $YodaBSD: src/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/yodanotes/9steppro cess.sgml,v 3.95.0 2003/12/01 13:25:25 tsarkon Exp $

    1. Defecate. Preferably after eating senna, ex lax, prunes, cabbage, pickled eggs, and Vietnamese chili garlic sauce. Defecation could be performed in the Return of the Jedi wastebasket for added pleasure.
    2. Wipe ass with witch hazel, soothes horrific burns. (Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda can use witch-hazel on mouth to soothe the horrific burns from performing so much analingus.)
    3. Prime anus with anal ease. (Now Cherry Flavored for those butthole lick-o-phillic amongst you - very popular with 99% of the Slashdotting public!)
    4. Slather richly a considerable amount of Vaseline and/or other anal lubricants into your rectum at least until the bend and also take your Yoda Doll , Yoda Shampoo bottle or Yoda soap-on-a-rope and liberally apply the lubricants to the Doll/Shampoo/Soap-on-a-rope.
    5. Pucker your balloon knot several times actuating the sphincter muscle in order to work it in.
    6. Put a nigger do-rag on Yoda's head so the ears don't stick out like daggers!
    7. Make sure to have a mechanism by which to fish Yoda out of your rectum, the soap on the rope is especially useful because the retrieval mechanism is built in.
    8. Slowly rest yourself onto your Yoda figurine. Be careful, he's big!
    9. Gyrate gleefully in your computer chair while your fat sexless geek nerd loser fat shit self enjoys the prostate massage you'll be getting. Think about snoodling with the Sarlaac pit. Read Slashdot. Masturbate to anime. Email one of the editors hoping they will honor you with a reply. Join several more dating services - this time, you don't check the (desired - speaks English) and (desired - literate). You figure you might get a chance then. Order some fucking crap from Think Geek. Get Linux to boot on a Black and Decker Appliance. Wish you could afford a new computer. Argue that IDE is better than SCSI because you can't afford SCSI. Make claims about how Linux rules. Compile a kernel on your 486SX. Claim to hate Windows but use it for Everquest. Admire Ghyslain's courage in making that wonderful star wars movie. Officially convert to the Jedi religion. Talk about how cool Mega Tokyo is. Try and make sure you do your regular 50 story submissions to Slashdot, all of which get rejected because people who aren't fatter than CowboyNeal can't submit. Fondle shrimpy penis while making a Yoda voice and saying, use the force, padawan, feeel the foooorce, hurgm. Yes. Yes. When 900 years you reach, a dick half as big you will not have.

    All in a days work with a Yoda figurine rammed up your ass.

    I HAVE A GREASED UP YODA DOLL SHOVED UP MY ASS!

    GO LINUX!!

  4. yea but. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    can it run li...

    oh. nevermind.

  5. Actually by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    BFD...hackable? Surely not!

  6. Goatse.cx aquired by SCO corporation by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    December 2, 10:00 am.

    SCO (quote : SCOX), in its contiuing string of aquistions and take overs in order to buy up Unix related IP holdings, has bought Goatse.cx, a subsiduary of Portman inc.

    Its trademark man with a strecthing anus has now been removed, and now redirects to SCO.com. People who would like to redirect people to goatse must pay SCO a $699 licencing fee, plus an extra $50 for every person redirected.

    Related links
    SCO
    Goatse
    Portman

  7. French media sympathizes with Iraqi resistance by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I knew the French likes Saddam, but I would have never guessed that they keep supplying weapons to the resistance and their media actually promotes Saddamists' cause.