[mythtv] Re:Crazy Question?

[Dan Conti]

Err, really. So microsoft licensed their xbox development platform to you so
you could develop linux based applications on their hardware? And they are
going to let you sell this product, which would put their xbox (a $199
sold-at-a-loss game console) in relative competition with media center PCs
($1100+ sold at a profit)? That seems a likely strategy for a billion dollar
company - i'm sure HP would be happy about their investment in media center.
Or does dreamix actually require a mod chip, thus undermining how your
product "will allow for a friendly install by the average user"?

-Dan

----- Original Message -----
From: Andrew Zarick
To: mythtv-dev at snowman.net
Sent: Monday, March 03, 2003 3:09 PM
Subject: [mythtv] Re:Crazy Question?


I was browsing the MythTV forum and happened to notice a post regarding
Dreamix.

"Dreamix is vaporware, furthermore, the people who claim to be making it
are making a 'custom ethernet tuner device' that will sell for 'around $100'
which means that they're in it for the money. Considering a $40-something
USB tuner, or an open source mythtv frontend would do just fine I don't
consider dreamix a viable solution to anything. The only proof that anything
is happening is some "screenshots" on the sourceforge site they registered,
unfortunately all of those images were created in photoshop, not from
screenshots."

The reasoning behind an Ethernet add-on is due to the fact that the Xbox
uses USB1.0.  The speeds of USB1.0 are not sufficient enough for good
quality video.  After reading the above quote from Poptix, it appears as if
he is not very familiar with the project.  Dreamix is far from vaporware.
If any interested developers would like to see the source code for Dreamix,
feel free to contact me.  One last thing, the first release of Dreamix will
be based on Debian.  However, Dreamix can be easily ported to both the Mac
and Windows platforms.

Regards,

Andrew Zarick
President
Dreamix Corporation




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