[mythtv-users] Mythfrontend on a Wii - ever posible?

Ross Campbell ross.campbell at gmail.com
Fri Jan 5 03:34:01 UTC 2007


On 1/4/07, Brad Staton <brad.staton at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 1/4/07, Jacob Steenhagen <jacob at steenhagen.us> wrote:
> > >  Ok this one is way out there but, would there even be any possibility of
> > > running a mythtv frontend on the new Nintendo *Wii* games console?
> >
> > I, too, am curious about this. It seems like it might be possible for
> > somebody to implement the frontend as a Wii Channel rather than
> > requiring that the Wii run Linux.
>
> In order to write a Wii channel, I'm assuming you'd need a licensed Wii
> developer's kit, which is probably prohibitively costly.

Actually, Wii developer kit is said to be about $1700 - not quite cost
prohibitive, and it certainly is an interesting idea.

http://digitalbattle.com/2006/06/21/wii-development-kit-to-cost-1700/

-Ross


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