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A Ready-Made MythTV Set-Top Box in Australia

Posted by timothy on from the plug-and-go dept.

Anonymous Coward writes "Australian Personal Computer magazine published a review of a new all-in-one set-top-box based on linux. A quick analysis of the device yields some cheats/hacks that not only allow you to enable the advertisment skipping feature they disabled, but could allow system compromise. The system also runs a GPL version of MythTV - anyone else see any licensing issues?" Only if they don't follow the GPL.

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  1. After seeing the prices they are asking, by pair-a-noyd · · Score: 4, Funny

    I am 100% certain they are both smoking from Darl's pipe and paying Darl's fees...

    Damn!

    1. Re:After seeing the prices they are asking, by mcspock · · Score: 4, Funny

      You've never tried setting up mythtv, have you?

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    2. Re:After seeing the prices they are asking, by Frogbert · · Score: 3, Funny
      AUD$500 effort?

      This is redhat where talking about

      *ducks*
  2. Fascinating by flopsy+mopsalon · · Score: 3, Funny
    From the highlights page:
    incorporating cutting edge magnetic storage technology, the HMC digitally encodes live television
    I find this fascinating. It seems the future of digital media storage involves actually using magnets to encode data. I definitely need to read up on how this new technology works.
    1. Re:Fascinating by MrIrwin · · Score: 4, Funny
      It actually says "cutting edge magnetic storage". Cleary this is a hybrid techniqe that combines the best concepts of core storage with punched cards.

      OTOH, this is an Aussie site, perhaps Bruce was just a few tubes of Fosters over his bating average.

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      And if you thought that was boring you obviously havn't read my Journal ;-)

  3. Question: by errxn · · Score: 5, Funny

    What happens if you try to watch Mythbusters on MythTV? Something like matter-antimatter annihilation?

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  4. Re:Well, is it a modified MythTV by PacoTaco · · Score: 2, Funny

    Wow, you used "GPL" 19 times in this post. Pretty impressive.

  5. Slashdot logic by WankersRevenge · · Score: 1, Funny


    I'm know I'm gonna be labelled a troll, but I got karma to burn . . .
    </typical slashdot mod me up statment>

    I'm really upset that they are commercializing the GPL. Jeez. But, actually, if they do decide to commercialize the GPL, I hope they use GTK because it's commercial friendly and then don't have to open the source. Which makes me angry 'cause they are not sharing their source with anyone. Why won't they open their source? What do they think this is? M$-land?

    Some people.

    <disclaimer for the humor impaired>
    laugh people, it's a joke
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