Home Theatre computer

Home Theatre computer

Ohad Levy ohadlevy at gmail.com
Tue Nov 10 05:59:49 IST 2009


note that the graphical drivers for Linux are questionable, I think that it
will not work with HD quality under recent Linux Distributions and
applications (e.g. Mythbuntu 9.10 )

Ohad

2009/11/10 Tom Goren <motnerog at gmail.com>

> somewhat blasphemous to promote apple products on a linux mailing list...
>
> the fit-pc2 looks awesome, i am already making inquiries now, interested in
> buying one myself.
>
> tom.
>
> 2009/11/6 Marc Volovic <marc.volovic at swiftouch.com>
>
> Yes, there is such a unit. It is called Mac Mini, iMac or Mac Pro,
>> whichever is your poison.
>>
>> ---MAV
>> Marc. Volovic
>> +972-54-467-6764
>> marcvolovic at me.com
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>>
>> On Nov 6, 2009, at 14:29, Amos Shapira <amos.shapira at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>  2009/11/6 Noam Rathaus <noamr at beyondsecurity.com>:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I am looking for a "pre-built" system that I can seamlessly and easily
>>>> install Boxee on it.
>>>>
>>>> I am not interested in building one from scratch, as my goals are:
>>>> 1) ease of installation
>>>> 2) silence - the computer has to be dead-quite
>>>> 3) everything just there - i mean, I don't want to buy X, Y and Z from
>>>> three
>>>> different places
>>>> 4) has to be small and look slick
>>>>
>>>> AND most importantly
>>>> 5) Has to have/come with a remote control
>>>>
>>>> Does anyone know of such units being sold in Israel?
>>>>
>>>
>>> Sorry no answer from me about this one.
>>>
>>> But if you are like me - I suspect that you might be looking for
>>> something to allow you to watch Internet media as well as digital TV
>>> on your large screen TV in the living room, right?
>>>
>>> I recently learned about DLNA (dlna.org) - there are apparently
>>> thousands of devices supporting it and the TV's among them which do it
>>> properly should allow viewing of media over LAN (or even wireless LAN)
>>> and there are apparently some open source efforts to support its
>>> server-side on Linux too.
>>>
>>> My current (mid-term) plan is to get my hands on one of these TV's,
>>> get a proper Digital TV tuner card on my desktop Linux and serve media
>>> from the Linux over Wirless N or wired LAN to the TV.
>>>
>>> I have absolutely zero experience with actually implementing this or
>>> even seeing/reading about someone who did. I just read a bit about it
>>> in the last few weeks.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> --Amos
>>>
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