[mythtv-users] Google TV HDMI Input

[Robert Johnston]

On 17/11/2010 4:45 PM, Brad Templeton wrote:
> For linux boxes, it seems that a card which can take HDMI in, and play
> various transforms on it to combine it with other signals and then do
> HDMI output would be reasonably doable. Possibly even partly in software
> if the incoming signal does not have HDCP. It should be possible to make
> a card that does all that with HDCP as long as it does not make the
> pass-through stream available to the system, but rather only allows
> mixing stuff with it for OSD, and switching and the like.
>
> Don't know if we in the myth world are enough market for such a card,
> though.

I could be wrong, but isn't the GoogleTV box a linux box? It is running 
(a modified version of) Android, which runs in a Java VM on top of Linux.

Just a thought.