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Home-Brewed Entertainment the Open Source Way
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| There are plenty of companies offering to sell you the latest set-top box or
| media server for your home theater. However, many of them are tied up with
| proprietary technologies that limit what a true-hearted tinkerer can do with
| them. There are other ways. Open source software exists for those with the
| courage to do it themselves.
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| [...]
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| The OSD is an open source home entertainment hub that connects and archives
| live TV, TiVo, DVD and satellite/cable television. Neuros designed the device
| to work well with Linux code. Its support community offers a bonus to coders
| who can help connect various open source devices together.
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http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/63485.html
Those companies sell hardware and services, not ransomeware.
Recent:
The Neuros OSD
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| What attracts me to the project is that I can use it as a really, really
| cheap MythTV frontend. This is not at all one of the intended uses of the
| product as conceived by Neuros Technology, but they will get a sale from me
| just because of that. And right now its MythTV support comes down to the
| fact that MythTV and the Neuros OSD both speak uPNP. But if I wanted to, I
| could write code and load it onto the OSD that would access my MythTV
| recordings as seamlessly as if it had been designed for just that purpose.
| Then I can put this code online and even more people might buy an OSD just
| for that purpose. Afterall, the Neuros OSD is selling for $179 and it would
| cost me >$400 to create a suitable MythTV front end.
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http://server.ericsbinaryworld.com/blog/2008/06/13/the-neuros-osd/
Related:
Review: Neuros OSD
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| Need some helpful suggestions of what kind of things you can do with a Neuros
| OSD? How about getting the OSD to play nicely with Tivo? Neuros is even
| offering a cash bounty for the folks who get this done.
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http://www.linuxjournal.com/node/1006086
The Neuros OSD: A New Paradigm for Consumer Devices?
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| Surprisingly one of the media establishment's darling devices at the 2008
| Consumer Electronics Show (CES) is fully open, runs Linux and invites
| hacking - er, customization. The device is the Neuros OSD, a $200 video
| recorder that allows you to archive, organize and play back all of your video
| media, such as live television, DVDs, VHS tapes, etc. The acronym "OSD"
| stands for "open source device". Hot dog, this is our kind of gadget!
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http://www.linuxjournal.com/node/1006049
What This Gadget Can Do Is Up to You
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| The OSD has not only open hardware, but also open software: it is based on
| the Linux operating system. Neuros Technology encourages hacking of the
| device; it has contests with cash rewards for new applications for the OSD.
| One winner, for instance, designed a program that lets people use it to watch
| YouTube on their televisions.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/06/business/06novel.html?ref=business
ArsGeek reviews the Neuros OSD
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| The first two observations I made when I opened my Neuros OSD were that the
| unit was a lot smaller than I was expecting (about five and a half inches by
| five and a half inches in size) and that it looked nice. This was no flat
| looking boxy apparatus, nor was it a standard component. It was curved, it
| was sleek, black and more aerodynamic than any other DVR I’ve come across.
|
| I liked the size and the look immediately. Not only was this thing slick
| looking, but I could easily grab the RCA cables and the Neuros and bring it
| over to a friends house to watch whatever I’d recorded.
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http://www.arsgeek.com/?p=2831
Review: The Linux Powered Neuros OSD
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| The future is very bright for this little piece of open source goodness. I
| look forward to seeing how it grows and improves.
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http://www.raiden.net/?cat=2&aid=326
The Linux-based Neuros OSD
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| Neuros Technology did it again: one more of their interesting media products
| hits the market, and this time it uses Linux. We used the Neuros OSD this
| past week and here's what we think about it.
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| [...]
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| Overall, Neuros seems to get it. Extensibility, plus a powerful product.
| Hopefully HD abilities and failing that, S-Video out, will be available on
| the next major revision of the product. Sure, it doesn't feel as cool as an
| AppleTV, but it does so much more!
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| Rating: 8/10
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http://www.osnews.com/story.php/18832/The-Linux-based-Neuros-OSD/
Product alert: Neuros Open Source Device
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| With an Open Source basis, the potential for the developer community to make
| grand extensions to the Neuros OSD could be huge.
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http://www.pcauthority.com.au/news.aspx?CIaNID=63630
YouTube on the TV with the OSD
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| Neuros is certainly not the only ones bringing net video to the TV, but we
| are probably the only CE company doing it with open source. Nowhere is the
| intersection between free software and free speech more obvious. If the
| connection between the internet and the TV falls into the hands of a
| proprietary vendor's closed solution, then the hard won free speech victory
| of he internet will fall far short of its ultimate potential.
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http://open.neurostechnology.com/node/905
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