Re: [gentoo-user] Suggestions for a TV Box

[Luke Albers <gtg940r@mail.gatech.edu>]

Tom,

This is designed for cell phones and pdas but it might be worth your
time to have a look at
http://www.rasterman.com/files/eem.avi



On Fri, 2005-07-29 at 17:49 +1200, Tom Eastman wrote:
> Hey Guys,
> 
> I've got a reasonably stripped down gentoo box (P3-733) with a good video
> card running in my living room, with the TV as its monitor and a wireless
> keyboard and mouse.
> 
> Sounds great so far, doesn't it?  But what shall I do with it?  It has good
> TV out capability but no TV in.  I have freevo running at the moment, but
> not MythTV, I'm not really brave enough yet, it seems pretty complicated to
> set up (I have exactly zero MySQL experience).
> 
> So, how would you go about getting a good computing experience out of an
> older computer with a TV output?  What do people think would make a nice
> window manager?  It would be kind of cool to get things like web-browsing
> or email up and running.  I'm kind of thinking some kind of non-window
> based interface would be cool, like what you see on palm devices and such. 
> As well as locking it down to nice big fonts that can be easily read on a
> TV screen.
> 
> So what do people think?  At the moment its primary function is to grab
> movies and stuff off of my NFS and play them throught the TV, but I'm sure
> there is potential for it to be so much more!
> 
> Inspire me!  ;-)
> 
>         Tom
> 
> 
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Luke Albers
Electrical Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology
gtg940r@mail.gatech.edu

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