A Ready-Made MythTV Set-Top Box in Australia

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.

Comments

After seeing the prices they are asking,

[pair-a-noyd]

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

Damn!

Re:After seeing the prices they are asking,

[mcspock]

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

Re:After seeing the prices they are asking,

[Frogbert]

AUD$500 effort?

This is redhat where talking about

*ducks*

Fascinating

[flopsy mopsalon]

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.

Re:Fascinating

[MrIrwin]

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.

Question:

[errxn]

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

Re:Well, is it a modified MythTV

[PacoTaco]

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