OQ's HDTV with built-in Media Center PC
By Marc Perton 
posted Jan 2nd 2006 11:30AM
posted Jan 2nd 2006 11:30AM
German company OQ (not to be confused
with the OQO or the OC, of course), has made one aspect of owning a Media Center
PC a little easier: they've crammed the guts of the PC into an HD display, turning the set into an all-in-one unit. OQ
doesn't make any displays themselves; they use LCDs from Philips and Samsung, in sizes from 32 to 40 inches. PC specs
include a 1.6GHz Centrino, 512MB of RAM, 250GB drive, Windows Media Center Edition 2004 and a dual-layer burner. And,
sure, we know you could do this yourself. But sometimes convenience is a good thing, and depending on what these guys
are charging for this, it might even be worth a bit of a premium.[Via I4U]
depending on the price, and whether it works or not...
these guys could make a killing.
Is the "media center 2004" a typo?
Just a couple of things to pick at. Centrino is NOT a processor brand, and the picture shows of MCE 2005, not 2004
I've always thought that the next big innovation in television would be a TV with a built-in DVR. This may be the first step.
Looks like a big iMac to me... only black and running a sh*te operating system!
Woohoo! I can buy an HDTV that obsoletes itself even faster than normal.
That aside, this is actually pretty cool. Might get a lot more PCs in the living room this way.
But of course it is probably equipped with Intel embedded graphics which suck for video rendering. Yay! Spend thousands on a HD display to get mighty BOB deinterlacing. No thanks.
The oq.tv page says they are equipped with 128MB Radeon 9800, which is a pretty decent card, certainly enough for sitting in front of the TV with relatively recent games. Dunno about video performance though.
Until Vista and cable card support you'd be using this thing on a coax connection. I guess you could mount an STB and the MCE IR flasher on the wall next to your fancy TV as well.
"Centrino" is not a processor. Celeron, maybe?