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DVB-T STB/MPEG2 Player That Can Access SMB Shares

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the cool-devices dept.

feanor writes "Siemens is realeasing beginning of November the Gigaset M740 AV (German text). This is a DVB-T set-top-box that can access SMB shares either via ethernet or WLAN and store its MPEG2 compliant streams. Alternatively it can be used as an MPEG2 streaming client. Other cool features include the ability to hook-up standard USB hard-drives as storage, a dual tuner architecture and a very cool design."

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  1. What SMB? by leomekenkamp · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The interesting question is: does it use some sort of windows, or does it use samba to access those shares?

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  2. Re:And four thousand linux users cry ... by DaHat · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Cry all you want, but SMB users still out numbers NFS users.

    I don't intend this to be a flame, just a simple fact of life currently.

    At least with some Samba you can have NFS support, unlike Windows people who hear NFS and are clueless.

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  3. For Now, Useless In The U.S. by aredubya74 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Every cable company is (or has been) rolling out digital cable packages to subscribers, touting the enormous number of extra channels, insta-PPV ordering, "digital quality sound" etc. The big catch is that you're shackled to their box - all the years of cable-ready TV sets go out the window. As such, since I'm not aware of any cable companies that will let you bring your own box, cool set tops are useless to us.

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  4. Re:Half backed... by Denuvo · · Score: 3, Insightful

    DVB broadcasts are MPEG-2 encoded. This device surely simply stores the received MPEG-2 stream unchanged. It's the obvious thing to do (and the same thing done by, for example, the DirecTV TiVo and Windows XP Media Center Edition).

  5. Re:Not in the US by Silvrmane · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Enough with the acronyms. Messages like this are unreadable to people who don't know what the heck DVB or ATSC mean.

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  6. Re:RTFA euummm... Tried... by hhawk · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It's not just "and some other places, like Australia" it's EVERYWHERE else but the US and maybe South Korea. It's the world standard.

    It's also used in the US by TV stations who are transmitting feeds back to their station "houses."

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