Linux Looms Large in DVRs, PVRs

Posted by timothy on Tuesday January 11, 2005 @02:07PM from the no-pesky-license-fees dept.

An anonymous reader writes "According to an article at LinuxDevices there's a new fanless digital entertainment center reference design based on Linux and the MythTV open source DVR (digital video recorder) software. The 'Royal Linux Media Center' runs ESG's Royal Linux OS on a Transmeta development board based on its Efficeon chip. Linux has been increasingly popular in DVRs and PVRs, with examples including TiVo (of course), HP's recently unveiled Linux media hub, i3's Mood box, Interact-TV's Telly, Siemens' Speedstream, VWB's MediaReady 4000, Amino's AmiNet500, Sharp's Galileo, Dream-Multimedia-Tv's Dreambox, NEC's AX10, and Sony's CoCoon, to name a few."

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Re:Make it, I'll buy it by killjoe · 2005-01-11 15:20 · Score: 1, Troll

Looks like a perfect job for the new mac.

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Re:Make it, I'll buy it by Anonymous Coward · 2005-01-11 17:17 · Score: -1, Troll

In other words, you want a TiVo.

You want a TiVo, but you don't want to pay for it, and you don't want it to have a viable business model.

And you are expecting someone to produce this miracle box, when, exactly..........?