[mythtv-users] Who's going to be the first?

Brian Wood beww at beww.org
Wed Sep 1 20:46:24 UTC 2010


On Wednesday, September 01, 2010 02:38:57 pm Robert Johnston wrote:
> On 01/09/2010 1:15 PM, Brian Wood wrote:
> > As you say, it would be nice to be able to run a Myth F/E on it, but
> > I suspect they will try to lock it down like an iPhone or iPad.
> 
> Given that reports state it's running iOS4, the same OS as the iPhone
> and iPad, chances are it's already locked down that hard.
> 
> > The big question is what sort of video hardware does it have, and are
> > free drivers available for it.
> 
> It's probably an iPad inside, with the LVDS for the LCD display replaced
> with a HDMI processor chip. Apple have stated it does 720p only, no
> 1080, so it's not going to be all that powerful. You'd probably be
> better off sticking with an Ion-based Mini.

I read that about 720p, then I read it again carefully and found it said "Apple will only be streaming 720p".

So I'm not sure if it's a hardware limitation or just the fact that streaming 1080i/p would take a LOT of bandwidth, or a 
large cache and plenty of patience, so they are limiting the streaming to 720p, and even that is optimistic, based on my 
experience with Netflix.

I think people who paid for 1080p sets will not be happy about being limited to 720p, no mater what it is that's causign 
the limitation.

I'm surprised that Cisco hasn't complained about Apple calling that OS "IOS", sounds like what runs on a Cisco router to 
me.


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