“The Neuros OSD promises a lot – it claims to be the first open source Linux-based embedded media center and it ‘records video and links your PC, portables and entertainment center’. Bold claims, but can it live up to them?”
“The Neuros OSD promises a lot – it claims to be the first open source Linux-based embedded media center and it ‘records video and links your PC, portables and entertainment center’. Bold claims, but can it live up to them?”
This sounds like and interesting piece of hardware is like Tivo on steroids but open. I am realy wondering about its widescreen and HD capabilities down the line. I found the review interesting since it gave a developers and users point of view which its hard to find. Now if I couldonly use the nokia 770 as my remote control I would be st.
the current gen OSD hardware isn’t powerful enough to do HD. A future version may be, though.
aahh Nokia 770 as a remote, we’re working on it…
http://open.neurostechnology.com/node/545
http://open.neurostechnology.com/node/562
stay tuned.
The Neuros Digital Audio Computer. It has served me very well. Plays OGGs. Open source firmware, worked with my FreeBSD desktop [1], excellent sound quality and features.
I have a great confidence in Neuros. And I hope they’ll make a great product.
I only skimmed the TFA, but I think his concerns about user friendliness might be warranted. The Neuros I’ve had for quite a while has always been user friendly to me, but I might be biased as I’m not that easally bothered by minor quirks.
Then again. I haven’t used this device. I just hope for them to succeed because they’ve served me well.
Sure I’m totally not representative for the target group of this device, because when shit work for me, I’m bored out of my ass. I want things to break so I can try to fix them, what else would I use my computer for? I know this mindset might be degenerate to main stream UNIX desktop adoption. Just trying to be up front.
Anyway. I’m drunk. Yes. Drunk.
See you OSNews!
/ elvis
[1] I actually had to send in a patch to FreeBSD to disable part of the USB 6-byte initialization command. But after that it worked great.
Seems really awesome. Has alot of potential, once they get it perfected this will be a hot product.
It is especially disappointing when a company that touts it’s openness and Linux roots has requirements like these:
System Requirements:
o OS: Microsoft® Windows 98SE/Me/2000/XP
o CPU: Pentium 233MHz or higher
o Memory: 64MB minimum
o Hard Drive: 160MB
o USB Port
Here’s a link (hopefully, this link will parse):
http://www.neurosaudio.com/store/product.asp?catalog%5Fname=Dig…
Edited 2006-12-20 13:35