Archive for September, 2005

ViXS Systems Debuts Industry’s First Dual-Client Wireless TV Reference Design

Tuesday, September 6th, 2005

Im liking this a lot, imagine one DIYPVR for the whole home. From the media release:
ViXS Systems, the leading developer of video processing and wireless chipsets, today at the IFA Conference in Berlin introduced its new WaveTV Reference Design for single or multi-client wireless TV products. Using this design, set-top box, television and consumer electronics […]

MythDora 1.5 released

Monday, September 5th, 2005

From BYOPVR:
“MythDora is a FC3/OS with MythTV-0.18.1 all on one CD. This CD will install on all kinds of PVR builds. I’ve repackaged the FC3 ATI rpm’s to allow for TV-Out. I’ve also packaged the (Thomas Winischhofer) SiS driver in rpm format to work especially for MythDora. Of course you can’t leave out the Nvidia […]

Hurricane Katrina: Please donate to Save the Children

Saturday, September 3rd, 2005

After some reader feedback all Weblog Empire blogs are now supporting the effort by Save the Children to provide relief services to those suffering after following Cyclone Katrina.
Banners are being run exclusively across the network at least for the next week or so to encourage people to donate.
I’ve also put together a generic […]

Company values at SnapStream

Thursday, September 1st, 2005

The Snapstream blogs is talking company values, and although I’m tempted to make jokes based on the fact they continue to use a standard Kubrick WordPress template and/or about how you should feel warm and fuzzy about your PVR software, I’m won’t, because its quite impressive. Read it here.

Mandriva Linux MythTV install guide

Thursday, September 1st, 2005

Pretty decent install guide over at Grounstate here on installing MythTV with Mandriva. Got to give this one a shot, Mandriva (previously Mandrake) is one of the most user friendly Linux distros out there.
They use the following setup to get things working:
- C3 box used as both frontend and backend
- one big SATA hard […]