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Telly MC2100, a Linux-based PVR/Media Center

Posted by michael on from the what's-on-the-telly? dept.

An anonymous reader writes "LinuxDevices has published an article about the Telly MC1200, a new convergent PVR/mediaplayer made by Interact-TV. The Linux-based device supports up to three internal hard drives on which it can store and manage libraries of digital music, photos, and DVDs/video. It can also burn CDs and save DVDs to local mpeg (DivX?) files, and it can pause and record live TV in TiVO-like fashion. The device is based on a 1.2GHz VIA C3 processor and has 256MB of PC2100 DDR SDRAM memory, expandable to 1GB."

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  1. In a word: WOW! by dmayle · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Talk about PVR done right. I've been a big fan of Tivo, and if I hadn't moved out of Tivo land (USA), you wouldn't be able to pry mine from my cold, dead hands, but this is very tantalizing. It doesn't put restrictions on you, instead trusting you to do what you should. You can put your DVDs to the hard drive so you have a DVD jukebox, it's based on open source, and there's a developer version. (Though I must admit, I wish their program was OS, I think there's room for both types of software.) Hell, if nothing else, just buying the device and installing MythTV on it would work, if you wished. The whole built-in webserver, CD-ripping capabilities, and it starts at $800! I'm going to send them an email to see if it works with PAL tuners...

  2. copying DVDs by bjpirt · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I would imagine that the saving DVDs to local files feature would just keep the streams as MPEG 2 otherwise, on this CPU, the rip to divx would take quite some time. Of course from there you could convert it in the background.

  3. Re:Starts at 800$US! by Lord+Kano · · Score: 3, Interesting

    How much is YOUR time worth?

    LK

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    "Hi. This is my friend, Jack Shit, and you don't know him." - Lord Kano
  4. Um.. right.. by Xyl3ne · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The article at Linux Devices http://linuxdevices.com/articles/AT4917820524.html says it uses a 1200mhz (1.2ghz) VIA C3 CPU, yet the offical site says "VIA C3 933MHz x86 Processor". If thats not dodgy, I don't know what is.

  5. Re:IR keyboard by gl4ss · · Score: 2, Interesting

    depends on the environment and on the keyboard model/maker obviously.

    it's possible to get it working pretty well.

    but true, rf is the king(but needs pairing, while being a short process it still takes time).

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    world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.
  6. No Digital Coax Out?? by tlh1005 · · Score: 1, Interesting

    At first I thought it didn't have one but i read more and found out it's optional. How in the hell do you have digital audio out as an "Option", especially when the thing costs $800? I know these units serve more purpose than Tivo but the Cable/Sat industry wins here if you can rent from them. I pay $7 a month for PVR/DVR. Let's say they upgrade the boxes every 2 years. It would take 11 years for the cost of renting to equal the cost of buying this thing. I will have traded for updated boxes 5 times by then, while I'd be stuck with 11 year old technology if I had bought this $800 toilet, I mean PVR. Optional digital out, WTF?

  7. Oh and did I mention.... by siasl · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The support is basically limited to emailing you that. "That problem will be fixed in 3.0"......