[mythtv-users] Android tablet - advanced remote control and/or frontend?

[Francesco Peeters]

On 6/10/10 23:28 , Brian Wood wrote:
> On Thursday, June 10, 2010 03:15:15 pm Nick Rout wrote:
>   
>> On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 1:09 AM, Brian Wood <beww at beww.org> wrote:
>>     
>>> On Thursday, June 10, 2010 06:57:03 am Richard Morton wrote:
>>>       
>>>> http://phandroid.com/2010/06/09/notion-ink-adam-pops-back-in-still-on-tr
>>>> ack -for-q3-releas/
>>>>         
>>> Interesting, but it looks like overkill for a remote and underkill for a
>>> frontend.
>>>
>>> To be a practical frontend it would need hardware decoding for common
>>> video formats, including h264. None of the tablets I've seen (including
>>> the iPad) have anywhere near the power to do software decoding. Some
>>> tegra chips have this capability, but I'm not sure which of them this
>>> unit is using.
>>>
>>> I think we'll see many ARM-based tablets in the coming months, they seem
>>> to be the next "Netbooks".
>>>       
>> The web page claims "Full High Definition Multimedia"
>> (http://www.notionink.in/adamoverview.php).
>>     
> Such a statement can mean a lot of things. It may be able to *display* HD resolutions but not necessarily decode anything 
> but MPEG2. I'm not sure what "HD web streaming formats" might mean, though "such as Youtube" implies flash, something an 
> iPad won't do.
>
>   

The website specifically says:
" Up to 1080p video encode/decode and support for HD Web streaming
formats, such as YouTube H"
and
" Over 140 hours audio and over 16 hours of HD video playback"

So - unless they're flat out lying - I think that answers that question,
doesn't it?

They're using nVidia Tegra2, which *should* be capable of hardware HD
decoding @ 1080p H.264...

> It also says the screen is 1024x300, hardly what I would call "Full HD".
>
> I hate it when marketing types write these things and not engineers.
>
>   

Actually it says 1024*600... But still no Full HD, but closer than what
you said!  ;-)

>> Yes this might be nice as a frontend on the can or perhaps out by the
>> pool [1], but really I think I prefer the 'watch tv from the sofa'
>> paradigm.
>>     
> Agreed, totally.
>
>   

Me three!
-- 
Francesco

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