Ah, so this is what you get when you
take a hardware platform "open-source" -- the Neuros OSD. This infinitely hackable Linux-based media recorder / player beta unit is on sale now. Yeah,
beta, 'cause this ain't no ordinary hardware offering. See Neuros is willing to pay you cash-money "bounties" to code new features into the open source firmware: YouTube or Google video ($1000), Flickr photo browsing ($600), wireless remote capabilities from a WiFi handheld device such as a PDA ($500), TiVo-style radio recording when connected to an FM/AM or satellite receiver ($700), and VoIP capabilities when a USB phone is connected ($500). Not bad for something you'll likely do for the fun of it anyway right? Out of the box, you get a standalone media player which can record from any external analog audio/video source and then automatically encode it for playback on PSPs, mobile phones, and iPods in popular formats such as MPEG-4, AVI, ASF, MP3, OGG, WMA, and AC3. And with a dual-core ARM9 / TI DSP, multi-card memory slot, USB host capability, Ethernet, recording up to 720x480 resolution at 30fps, IR Blaster, and S-Video in and Composite audio/video in/out, well, you still might be tempted to plunk down the meager $230 to take this baby home. Hurry though, only 200 beta units left!
posted Sep 20th 2006 9:31AM
They should have included an IR for your VHS.
This little thing shows some promise. I don't have time to do any extra coding, but I'll be interested in how this turns out later on.
this thing is gunna be the bomb
I can't code worth a damn either but I bought one anyway.
wow, better get coding then, any monetary rewards and I am in on it.
I want one!
I'd love to own this thing. Does anybody know details ocncerning the GUI and development libraries?
Buy it from ThinkGeek.com and get a $70 rebate.
http://open.neurostechnology.com/node/568
$229.99 - $70 rebate = $159.99
Not a bad deal if you ask me.
Can't I just install MythTV on it? MythTV supports booting off a CF card, then just add a external usb drive for storage.
I just ordered mine.
So cheap. Let OSS developers do the work for a few hundreds which would cost a few tentousands if the would employ some developers. The OSS developers even have to buy the hardware by themselves. Hopefully nobody will bite the bait. This will just spoil the jobmarket and value of work for professional devs. No developer can support his live with this business model. Just think how many hours you need to work to get the bounty on top of this somebody migth be faster than oyu means you work for free.
"Let OSS developers do the work for a few hundreds which would cost a few tentousands if the would employ some developers."
You say that like it's a bad thing. Do you think people should be forbidden to work for free? Even if the "work" they're doing is something they consider fun?
Or, you could look at it the other way. Most OSS developers code for fun; because they enjoy doing it. They don't normally get paid for it. So why not write some code, and make a few hundred dollars in the meantime?
Programming is a hobby for most OSS developers. Not their main job. Most of them don't really want to become professional developers. Somehow, doing something as a career seems to take the fun out of it. And, it takes a few years and several thousand dollars to earn a degree, which you'll need if you want to have any chance of finding a job.
And you don't like the idea that they have to buy the hardware? Well I don't know about you, but if I were working on this project, I'd love to have that programmable media recorder to mess around with.
Oh, and another thing: (low development costs) = (cheap end product). You can't deny that an inexpensive end product is a good thing.
Now if it only had HDMI....
ARM9 huh. the DS runs of an ARM9 and an ARM7, someone make a cool DS mod!
Ports for this:
Doom 1 & 2: $100
Quake 1/ Hexen 1: $180
Duke Nukem 3D: $180
MAME: $175
SNES, or Genesis emu: $145
... etc.
;)
awesome, but I'll wait for the programming crowd to supe this up.
If only someone could do this exact strategy but develop a lightweight hi-def capable "media center" front end (AKA mythtv frontend).
LAN in... video (component/HDMI) out...
optional: cf cards, dvd drive
As long as they are at it... how about video conferencing? That USB port could host a web-cam.
It would have been nice if they had a cooler coloured circuit board.
Baby shit brown isn't exactly great, but kudos for trying to colour-coordinate it with the remote!
That is three different levels of awesome. I'll wait a Neurosforge.org to be set up before getting my hands on this puppy.
That is three different levels of awesome. I'll wait a Neurosforge.org to be set up before getting my hands on this puppy.
This is a slick looking machine. I hope it works as well as it looks.
sounds interesting
here i come
This looks like it could be awesome.
crosses fingers
"Open-source" says it all.
this look so cool
Engadget the best of the web.....
I've been keeping tabs on the Neuros OSD website for over a year now and seems about time I get one. It's just what I would create for myself if I had the technical knowledge for assembling such a device. Every day I come across videos online I'd like to save plus I need a way to transfer aging home movies on VHS into the digital realm.
http://vtvid.110mb.com/video2.html
Looks really cool to me.....
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go.
:-)
Woo-Hoo
Sounds awesome!
sounds pretty friggin sweet.
Awesome!
cool
in for anything
OpenHardware meets OpenSource: the next New, New, Thing.
noice~
mpp
xys
Late but still on time.
please