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Submission Summary: 0 pending, 17 declined, 4 accepted (21 total, 19.05% accepted)

Submission + - Silent, discless HTPC v. a NetTop for your TV? (neurostechnology.com)

Submitted by JoeBorn
JoeBorn writes: Neuros has a blog posting discussing how they created their latest "thin" HTPC to be nearly silent. Instead of using a net-top architecture (atom or the like) they used a full 2.7GHz CPU and put this effort into making that nearly silent. The article talks about their efforts on fan selection, placement, control and vibration dampening. This route was chosen to "give more headroom" for CPU hungry apps (web and otherwise) including adobe flash. The solution costs $279, Is this an appropriate tradeoff for a device powering your TV?
Hardware Hacking

Submission + - VLC Hits the Device Market (neurostechnology.com)

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JoeBorn
JoeBorn writes: "VideoLAN has long been known as a mature open source project for video playback and transcoding on the PC. Now, Neuros and Texas Instruments have sponsored a port of VLC to their next generation open set-top box. The idea is to allow developers to easily create interesting plug-ins for recording and transcoding applications for the set-top box which will automate functions previously requiring a PC, like formating recordings for a portable player or streaming to another device on the lan or the internet, etc."
Hardware Hacking

Submission + - NY Times Article on Neuros Open Source Hardware (neurostechnology.com)

Submitted by
JoeBorn
JoeBorn writes: "The Sunday New York Times has an article on Neuros and describes the benefits of open source hardware to its mainstream readership. Can a mainstream audience appreciate that hackability can translate into new features or will it all just seem too geeky? In this case, the Neuros OSD got a YouTube browser and she also attributes a windsurfing rigg to it being open source. While the details might be lost on the average reader, are they getting the sense that some companies allow users to benefit from other users modifications while others are actively bricking products for applying 3rd party apps? In other words, is openness starting to add value to the brands that support it?"
Media

Submission + - Neuros Solicits help from AppleTV Hackers

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JoeBorn
JoeBorn writes: "Highlighting the fact that Neuros officially encourages contributions to its open source device (GPL), it has published an open letter soliciting the help of AppleTV hackers. "the transition to IPTV creates a golden opportunity to ensure that the gateway to the TV set becomes open to all." Neuros draws a connection between open source and free media, and attempts to articulate why an open box can extend the freedom of the internet to the TV set."

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