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That was a joke, right?]]>Mar 21st 2008 2:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/21/myka-sneaks-bittorrent-into-the-living-room/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/21/myka-sneaks-bittorrent-into-the-living-room/Mar 21st 2008 2:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/21/myka-sneaks-bittorrent-into-the-living-room/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/21/myka-sneaks-bittorrent-into-the-living-room/
"No Need For iTunes

And because it's BitTorrent, that means Myka can deliver any kind of content to your TV, developed in an open platform. No closed, proprietary system that works only on, say, Apple TV.

That means you don't need iTunes or any other prepackaged, closed system.

This is the Internet as it was meant to be experienced - without borders and open to any kind of content for consumers and any kind of innovation for developers.

That translates into choices."
- myka.tv

Oh yeuh they did!


Now if it could just record content instead of just playing back downloads, I'd be all over that bitch.]]>Mar 21st 2008 2:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/21/myka-sneaks-bittorrent-into-the-living-room/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/21/myka-sneaks-bittorrent-into-the-living-room/Mar 21st 2008 2:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/21/myka-sneaks-bittorrent-into-the-living-room/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/21/myka-sneaks-bittorrent-into-the-living-room/
Quite honestly, if you've noted my posting history (which would be scary if you have) you'd realize I'm most always sarcastic.

On another note, I don't own any Apple products and therefore could care less who or what rips anything of Apple.

Thanks for listening. Now go ahead and click that liiittle red button right up there ---------------^]]>Mar 21st 2008 2:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/21/myka-sneaks-bittorrent-into-the-living-room/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/21/myka-sneaks-bittorrent-into-the-living-room/
it just goes to show the dangers of being too sarcastic. the comment is indistinguishable from an actual apple fanboy comment.

remember the old saying : be careful who you pretend to be , because what you pretend to be is what you are.]]>Mar 21st 2008 3:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/21/myka-sneaks-bittorrent-into-the-living-room/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/21/myka-sneaks-bittorrent-into-the-living-room/"it just goes to show the dangers of being too sarcastic."

That's why you need to attach this tag at the bottom of your post:

(/sarcasm)

I don't know, but what are the two periods doing at the bottom of his post? Is it a sign of sarcasm that we missed? Scanning this guy's history, he's MOSTLY sarcastic.]]>Mar 21st 2008 4:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/21/myka-sneaks-bittorrent-into-the-living-room/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/21/myka-sneaks-bittorrent-into-the-living-room/Mar 21st 2008 7:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/21/myka-sneaks-bittorrent-into-the-living-room/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/21/myka-sneaks-bittorrent-into-the-living-room/Mar 21st 2008 9:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/21/myka-sneaks-bittorrent-into-the-living-room/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/21/myka-sneaks-bittorrent-into-the-living-room/Mar 22nd 2008 1:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/21/myka-sneaks-bittorrent-into-the-living-room/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/21/myka-sneaks-bittorrent-into-the-living-room/I feel liberated.]]>Mar 21st 2008 1:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/21/myka-sneaks-bittorrent-into-the-living-room/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/21/myka-sneaks-bittorrent-into-the-living-room/Mar 21st 2008 1:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/21/myka-sneaks-bittorrent-into-the-living-room/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/21/myka-sneaks-bittorrent-into-the-living-room/Mar 21st 2008 2:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/21/myka-sneaks-bittorrent-into-the-living-room/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/21/myka-sneaks-bittorrent-into-the-living-room/Mar 21st 2008 2:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/21/myka-sneaks-bittorrent-into-the-living-room/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/21/myka-sneaks-bittorrent-into-the-living-room/Mar 21st 2008 2:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/21/myka-sneaks-bittorrent-into-the-living-room/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/21/myka-sneaks-bittorrent-into-the-living-room/Mar 21st 2008 1:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/21/myka-sneaks-bittorrent-into-the-living-room/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/21/myka-sneaks-bittorrent-into-the-living-room/
If you use torrents to get your shows, I doubt you'll want to pay >$299 for this. If you want to get your content on the big screen there are cheaper ways to get there (XBMC). If you have money to waste, I guess you could buy this.]]>Mar 21st 2008 1:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/21/myka-sneaks-bittorrent-into-the-living-room/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/21/myka-sneaks-bittorrent-into-the-living-room/Mar 21st 2008 2:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/21/myka-sneaks-bittorrent-into-the-living-room/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/21/myka-sneaks-bittorrent-into-the-living-room/Mar 21st 2008 2:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/21/myka-sneaks-bittorrent-into-the-living-room/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/21/myka-sneaks-bittorrent-into-the-living-room/
I'm an IT guy. Provided my phone is in my pocket, my laptop always has an internet connection. It's great. Unfortunately it's not exactly grandma-friendly having to figure out which of 3 INIT strings an 2 dialup codes to use after determining the right port and launching the phone connector in windows. A lot of people pay me a decent bit of money so that they don't have to think about the details.

The significance here is on a market level, not a technology level. It's grandma-friendly torrenting; and that has to scare the crap out of the studios.]]>Mar 21st 2008 5:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/21/myka-sneaks-bittorrent-into-the-living-room/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/21/myka-sneaks-bittorrent-into-the-living-room/
I think that is the point exactly. Grandma doesn't know how to set this up, so she'll call you to configure it for her and then you'll either say "there's the expensive route" or "there's the cheaper route" which one do you want to choose?

I understand where you are coming from with the ease of setup with this compared to a cheaper route e.g XBMC + PC setup, but the setup should be a one time thing and you won't need to do it again.]]>Mar 21st 2008 6:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/21/myka-sneaks-bittorrent-into-the-living-room/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/21/myka-sneaks-bittorrent-into-the-living-room/Mar 21st 2008 1:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/21/myka-sneaks-bittorrent-into-the-living-room/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/21/myka-sneaks-bittorrent-into-the-living-room/Mar 21st 2008 2:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/21/myka-sneaks-bittorrent-into-the-living-room/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/21/myka-sneaks-bittorrent-into-the-living-room/Mar 21st 2008 2:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/21/myka-sneaks-bittorrent-into-the-living-room/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/21/myka-sneaks-bittorrent-into-the-living-room/
And there's a USB port for additional storage....]]>Mar 21st 2008 2:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/21/myka-sneaks-bittorrent-into-the-living-room/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/21/myka-sneaks-bittorrent-into-the-living-room/Mar 21st 2008 6:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/21/myka-sneaks-bittorrent-into-the-living-room/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/21/myka-sneaks-bittorrent-into-the-living-room/
*Myka not responsible for any jail time you may encounter because of pirating issues with local government

*Myka Warranty does not cover spontaneous combustion of product due to 42837 viruses that came with the latest pirated copy of Girls Gone Wild

Virus = Very yes]]>Mar 21st 2008 2:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/21/myka-sneaks-bittorrent-into-the-living-room/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/21/myka-sneaks-bittorrent-into-the-living-room/Mar 22nd 2008 2:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/21/myka-sneaks-bittorrent-into-the-living-room/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/21/myka-sneaks-bittorrent-into-the-living-room/The company uses Comic Sans for their logo!]]>Mar 21st 2008 2:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/21/myka-sneaks-bittorrent-into-the-living-room/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/21/myka-sneaks-bittorrent-into-the-living-room/Mar 21st 2008 2:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/21/myka-sneaks-bittorrent-into-the-living-room/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/21/myka-sneaks-bittorrent-into-the-living-room/Mar 21st 2008 2:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/21/myka-sneaks-bittorrent-into-the-living-room/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/21/myka-sneaks-bittorrent-into-the-living-room/Mar 21st 2008 3:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/21/myka-sneaks-bittorrent-into-the-living-room/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/21/myka-sneaks-bittorrent-into-the-living-room/Mar 21st 2008 11:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/21/myka-sneaks-bittorrent-into-the-living-room/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/21/myka-sneaks-bittorrent-into-the-living-room/
Is that a "DVB" logo on the bottom right? Can this thing get freeview or something lol. I might have miss read it but it sure looks like "DVB" to me :)]]>Mar 21st 2008 2:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/21/myka-sneaks-bittorrent-into-the-living-room/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/21/myka-sneaks-bittorrent-into-the-living-room/http://www.myka.tv/front_crop.jpg. Nice catch. It must be for their planned Asian version.]]>Mar 21st 2008 2:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/21/myka-sneaks-bittorrent-into-the-living-room/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/21/myka-sneaks-bittorrent-into-the-living-room/Mar 21st 2008 2:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/21/myka-sneaks-bittorrent-into-the-living-room/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/21/myka-sneaks-bittorrent-into-the-living-room/2) and will not do component or HDMI output
3) most people besides computer nerds don't already have a cheap machine lying around connected to their TV and given the option, $400 for a slick, attractive machine that's ready to go is pretty damn good
4) considering that this thing runs linux and the creators seem to embrace open culture, it probably won't be long before it's hacked into a full-fledged computer, making it just as good as your DIY box
5) you're not getting laid with a dorky nerd-box running four 92mm fans and cold cathode lighting next to your TV]]>Mar 21st 2008 2:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/21/myka-sneaks-bittorrent-into-the-living-room/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/21/myka-sneaks-bittorrent-into-the-living-room/
PC's advantage- ability to add more software, more expandability.]]>Mar 21st 2008 2:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/21/myka-sneaks-bittorrent-into-the-living-room/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/21/myka-sneaks-bittorrent-into-the-living-room/Mar 21st 2008 2:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/21/myka-sneaks-bittorrent-into-the-living-room/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/21/myka-sneaks-bittorrent-into-the-living-room/
2) It has HDMI out

3) If its not lying around and you have $400 to spend, why not get an attractive PC instead of a limited Bittorrent box.

4) The difference is I didn't have to do any hacking...I'm lazy and mine's easier.

5) I don't get laid based on what's sitting in my entertainment center, I get laid based on what's in my pants.]]>Mar 21st 2008 2:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/21/myka-sneaks-bittorrent-into-the-living-room/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/21/myka-sneaks-bittorrent-into-the-living-room/
7. Imagine the possibilities - leaving one of these hidden in your parent's house using their internet to d/l all you want, or using a neighbor's wireless internet. ]]>Mar 21st 2008 2:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/21/myka-sneaks-bittorrent-into-the-living-room/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/21/myka-sneaks-bittorrent-into-the-living-room/
I just bought a Dell Vostro 200 Slim, which is small form factor, and has
Core 2 Duo @2.2Ghz, overclock to 2.9 (BSEL mod)
2GB RAM,250GB HD, DVDRW.
for $369, including a 20" LCD.

No HDMI, but it does have DVI. If I really need it, I can add a HDMI PCIe vid card in there.

Nothing beats a good deal.]]>Mar 21st 2008 2:52PM