This one's been on the books since
September of 2007. Now it looks like the first retail product based on Intel's Canmore System on Chip (SoC), aka the
CE 3100, will take its first step into the spotlight at Computex with this "ready-to-market" Mediaconnect TV. The highly customizable
Mini ITX device runs a Linux-based Metroconnect OS that supports all the major video codecs and Dobly Digital/DTS decoding over 7.1 channels -- the CE 3100 then acts to hardware accelerate sourced 1080p video stored locally or streamed over DLNA / uPnP from anywhere in the house over fixed gigabit Ethernet. Standard features include a pair of USB 2.0 ports, HDMI 1.3a/component/composite and TOSLINK jacks, an SD/MMC card reader, and up to 2TB of on-board (SATA) storage. The box itself is highly customizable with options to include UMTS/HSUPA radios, DVB T/C/S tuners, Bluetooth (for mouse and keyboard), and 802.11n WiFi to take your media streaming wireless. It even features a webcam of unspecified quality. The built-in web browser with Adobe Flash 9.0 support means all the Hulu you can eat and optional dual DVB-T tuners will give you simultaneous over the air TV reception and recording. It remains to be seen how much of this customization will be made available direct to consumers as opposed to the cable companies and telcos that Metrological will ultimately partner with. Nevertheless, they'll be at Computex next week where we'll be on hand to bring you more detail. A second picture of a different Mediaconnect TV, or the same device sans faceplate, and meta shot of the main menu UI after the break.
posted May 26th 2009 6:07AM
wonder how much it will cost.
looks like a rip of the XBMC skin AEON.
Thought the same thing. Aeon is a great skin by the way. Gotta love how powerful XBMC's skinning engine is - there's a ton of different skin choices available and the large majority of them are very nice.
It should probably be noted that this product is not targeted towards the US.
was waiting on an htpc for better spec ion nettops to become ubiquitous, but this could be a good challenger... congrats intel...
p.s. couldnt seem to find any gpu specs on this courtesy of google... anyone bursting with that info that they'd love to share?
ok i should have read up a little more thoroughly... i didnt realise this would be an embedded OS kinda deal... back to the ion nettops...
(unless someone is gonna cook up a homebrew xp / 7 install... i know somewhere out there, some enterprising coder will be working on a *nix version already, someone always is!)
check the press release from Metrological and Conceptronic here
http://www.conceptronic.net/site/desktopdefault.aspx?tabindex=3&tabid=310&ni=2807
some extra info about the retail device
http://www.aroundmyroom.com/2009/05/25/yuixx-ce-3100-streaming-hd-media-player-iptv-solution/
its a shame that the design on this is obviously cribbed from the last generation MacBook Pro (or the current MacPro) - they should have update the look to that of the new unibody MBP - smaller, closer laser-etched holes. This looks like last year's stuff. Which it is.
Rob,
Here also more info. I do not believe the image shown on that page is a reference to the correct casing
here you can find more
http://metrological.com/node/press/
No DTS-HD or Dolby TruHD...not interested, big time FAIL.
I just read the product brief of the CE-3100 and it says that the CE-3100 supports True-HD! So no big fail i think :-)!
http://download.intel.com/design/celect/downloads/ce3100-product-brief.pdf
It looks good, wonder how much it will cost...
That interface looks very XBMC-ish - not that thats a bad thing!
Pretty sure this will be around $500
This has a lot of potential but will it be locked down and loaded with annoyances? It has x86 inside which means it could run
XBMC but the video hardware is probably use closed drivers. So sad. :(