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The World Is Enough with WhereverTV
NewTeeVee —
... The box, which is manufactured by Neuros, encodes the video coming from your computer so that you can see it on your TV screen. But some of WhereverTV’s online channels — including the UK’s intriguingly-named Single Malt TV – won’t play back using the device, because they use unsupported codecs. WhereverTV’s CEO, Mark Cavicchia, says when channels are not broadcasting live, they may change streams with each show — so you may be able to watch one show on a channel, but not the next one. ...
Four More Offbeat Open Source Ideas
OStatic blogs —
... media recorder and player. It runs Linux, and all of its firmware is open source. You connect the OSD to your TV and give it an analog video input and it can encode video in various formats, including formats for the PSP or mobile phones. You can find out more at the Neuros site. ...
Four More Offbeat Open Source Ideas [OStatic]
GigaOM Network —
... media recorder and player. It runs Linux, and all of its firmware is open source. You connect the OSD to your TV and give it an analog video input and it can encode video in various formats, including formats for the PSP or mobile phones. You can find out more at the Neuros site. ...
Contest: Gear Diary is giving away a Neuros OSD!
Gear Diary —
... so come up with one of your own! The contest starts right now , and it will end on Sunday the 9th at midnight ; a winner will be selected shortly after. The winner will be selected at random from all entries, and they will be notified via e-mail by Judie (so add judie@geardiary.com to your “safe” list, ASAP). Since Neuros is shipping directly to the winner, this contest will be open to participants in the United States only . So let’s get those brains going, and be sure to go over to the Neuros Technology website to check out all the cool stuff that the Neuros can ...
Neuros opens bounties for hackers who add features to their open set-top box
Boing Boing —
... for its new Ubuntu powered set-top device, the LINK. The bounties are largely Ubuntu tweaking on the Neuros hardware, which is pretty standard x86 components. Ownership of the device isn't necessary for completing the bounties, although its a help for some of them." ...
Neuros Link: Netflix Bounty Claimed!
Gear Diary —
... Neuros has long had bounties on different development projects that enhance their products. Well, one I have been semi excited for is Netflix Streaming. Well, sundevil98 has managed to get it working on the Link ...
State of the Neuros Link open set-top box
Boing Boing —
... up to be open. In fact, it started its 'gamma' phase of life as a stripped down PC, with the vision to become more 'electronics-like' using a remote, navigable from the couch etc. A recent release of its software shows how it's evolving on that path, with increasing functionality available without a mouse and keyboard, largely with the help of a lot of third party open source software, like XBMC, etc."
Screen Capture of Neuros LINK v 1.3 release "Handcock"
(Thanks, Joe!) ...
Peeking at Micro Innvations USB Hub Concepts
Gear Diary —
... Some of you may recognize the name Joe Born from the company Neuros, whose open source products we’ve been reviewing and talking positively about for years. What you may not know is that Joe also founded the company ...
Fight the Fights Worth Fighting For
AndroidGuys —
... Once that is done, we still need to replace proprietary drivers with open source equivalents (as has been done many a time on Linux), ensure there will be access to freely-distributable app markets with robust contents, and so on. Having a hardware vendor in our corner would help, though I can only think of one consumer device manufacturer with a truly strong track record with open source hardware. ...
Fight the Fights Worth Fighting For
AndroidGuys —
... Once that is done, we still need to replace proprietary drivers with open source equivalents (as has been done many a time on Linux), ensure there will be access to freely-distributable app markets with robust contents, and so on. Having a hardware vendor in our corner would help, though I can only think of one consumer device manufacturer with a truly strong track record with open source hardware. ...
Fight the Fights Worth Fighting For
Planet Android —
... Once that is done, we still need to replace proprietary drivers with open source equivalents (as has been done many a time on Linux), ensure there will be access to freely-distributable app markets with robust contents, and so on. Having a hardware vendor in our corner would help, though I can only think of one consumer device manufacturer with a truly strong track record with open source hardware. ...
Why the little guy can’t get a break in consumer electronics and 5 ways to find a leg up
CrunchGear —
... niche in the living room that has yet to be challenged by any manufacturer. Unfortunately, when someone – probably Samsung, LG, or Apple – figures out how to take over the DVR market, TiVo is toast. The same is true of Palm who, to all intents and purposes, is now a small company. The big guys are eating their lunch thanks to Android and it will take some fancy footwork to survive. The small guys are, sadly, always at the precipice of failure.
Other companies like Neuros and Slingbox simply sell a wrapper for their software. Sometimes this works but ...
