Neuros OSD 3 in development, makers want your input

Neuros has earned significant kudos with techies for its hackable OSD media player / recorder and its commitment to open source software. It's no surprise then to see the company reaching out to its loyal community for input on what should be found in the third generation of the device. Yes, technically the OSD 2 isn't even out of the developer kit stage yet, but Neuros is planning well ahead of time, with the 3.0 model unlikely to be seen for another 18 months. Founder Joe Born has confirmed a continuing partnership with Texas Instruments on an ARM-based unit, which should be able to play and record at 1080p / 60 with support for all the relevant formats and containers. There'll be a minimum of 2GB DDR3 RAM, as well as a HTML5- and Flash-compliant browser, but the rest of the specs are up to you -- if there's some killer feature you simply must have, hit the read link and let Neuros know.

[Via Slashgear]

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 29th 2009 11:28AM]

Neuros OSD 3 in development, makers want MY input!!!!!!!!!!

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 29th 2009 11:30AM]

As long as its powerful enough to play 1080p mkv/x264 profile5 movies, its good by me!

[htd Posted Jul 29th 2009 11:37AM]

I'd rather have atom, ion and xp, thanks.

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 29th 2009 11:47AM]

Make it cheap...

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 29th 2009 1:01PM]

This won't be a super cheap item out of the gate, it's a pretty high powered, fully 1080p/60 supported including recording, it won't be a $99 Roku type device. At launch this is going to be $299 minimum.

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 29th 2009 11:56AM]

It must play BluRay .ISO with menus etc for success imo.

[Pyronick Posted Jul 29th 2009 12:22PM]

If it can run XBMC and movies with the AV bitrate of Blu-Ray, I will consider one.

[fdawg4l Posted Jul 29th 2009 12:29PM]

Flash? Really? How can they make the Flash claim? Are they in bed with Adobe?

AFAIK their box runs linux, and is arm based. I've never (ever) come across an ARM port of libflashplayer (proper, not gnash) on linux and would be incredibly surprised to find one.

I've only come across gnash as an alternative for non x86 linux distros and it is nearly unusable on most flash sites (including youtube).

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 29th 2009 12:52PM]

enlightnin, Neuros is not working directly with Adobe, but ARM and TI are. You'll see Abobe flash 10 on ARM in 2009.

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 29th 2009 12:37PM]

I'd love this to have an optional 2-way remote control like the Sonos so you can navigate your music library and play songs without turning your TV on.

Also, native Hulu would be great.

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 29th 2009 12:51PM]

I had an OSD... it was shit.

[Poop Chef Posted Jul 29th 2009 12:58PM]

advanced teledildonics please

[The123 Posted Jul 29th 2009 1:34PM]

If it can record in 1080p can it tune/record OTA Tv signals? I also second a 2-way 'universal/learning' remote and give it 'wifi like' range. I'd like to distribute the OSD into 4 or more televisions. It would be nice to walk around the house with it or have multiple remotes that all controlled the unit from any room. :-)

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 29th 2009 1:37PM]

Slap XBMC on this thing with some custom plugins....and you've got yourself a winner!

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 29th 2009 3:08PM]

wants:
1080p
stream netflix 1080p
stream shared files (of as many formats as possible) off my ubuntu machines

[aninteger Posted Jul 29th 2009 3:05PM]

I am a current Neuros OSD owner. It's good for what it is; captures TV shows to SD/external HD.

One feature I'd recommend, borrow from TiVo where it is always recording to buffer. So that way, when I realized I should have recorded that commercial or want to replay that touchdown, I don't have to record ahead of time.

Menu is laggy, but intuitive. YouTube and music player are great, but I don't make the most of them.
Hulu support would really make me consider a OSD 3.