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Re: [LUG] Possible Linux-based media player?

 

Quoting Grant Sewell <dcglug@xxxxxxxxxxxx>:

Hi all,

Just saw the following on Aldi for next week:
http://uk.aldi.com/uk/html/offers/special_buys3_16758.htm

A bit of digging (and Google translating) and it looks quite likely
that it is a Linux based device:
Interesting.  I was looking at something similar last year, I believe  
they tend to run on a Realtek System On A Chip which is MIPS based (at  
least the ones I looked at were).  Amusingly around the same time  
eBuyer.com had some cheapo (around 80 quid) Bluray players which were  
also Linux based.  I was tempted to get one of each and try and hack  
them a bit, alas in the end I just bought a PS3.
I still wouldn't mind getting one of these little boxes though as I  
bet the consume a lot less power than my PS3 does.
Rob



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