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- zackpliskin - 2012-03-01 14:41
voochi Wrote:To call an $8000 sound system 'medium-end' is pretentious in the extreme.
However I have come to expect such pretention from hi-fi nuts and 'audiophiles'.
I'm a musician, and I've never understood that obsession, right down to the mostly meaningless minutiae. The thing is, some of the records they're striving so hard to recreate with "perfect fidelity" were probably recorded with cheap instruments on whatever old tape was lying around the studio that day. Seems senseless to spend more on reproduction equipment than was probably spent on the entire record.
Anyway, back on topic. Raspbmc is obviously very early days as a releasable XBMC distro, the brand new WP site with skeletal structure in place, but I'm looking forward to seeing it available to download. When it is, will be well worth even casual XBMC fans picking up the Raspberry Pi. My own intended use is as a portable platform to turn any HDMI bearing TV into a media centre, instantly. So many people I know have the TV, but don't want the time/money/hassle of a HTPC rig, so with the Rpi, a powered USB hub, a 2.5" USB2 SATA HDD and cheap IR remote with dongle (if this is possible; I guess drivers would be needed) I can show them what they are missing.
- Jaken - 2012-03-01 14:56
@sraue
Why only model B? With a usb ethernet adapter the model A should be equally useful for XBMC.
- bboo - 2012-03-01 15:36
The ideal use for me would be the ability to have a torrent client and xbmc on this device. Can this be possible?
- Jaken - 2012-03-01 15:42
bboo Wrote:The ideal use for me would be the ability to have a torrent client and xbmc on this device. Can this be possible?
Sure it could. I'm not just sure about the performance using both xbmc and a torrent client at the same time.
- krampf - 2012-03-01 15:46
bboo Wrote:The ideal use for me would be the ability to have a torrent client and xbmc on this device. Can this be possible?
that is exactly what i wanna do, and a torrent client like transmission for example needs nearly zero performance, maybe at start when ist hashs the torrents.
- darkscout - 2012-03-01 16:16
Debian Hipster says "ARM Compiled binaries? I was doing that before it was cool."
- MilhouseVH - 2012-03-01 16:39
zackpliskin Wrote:and cheap IR remote with dongle (if this is possible; I guess drivers would be needed) I can show them what they are missing.
You may not even need the IR dongle+remote, instead HDMI CEC and the original TV remote could be used to control R-Pi XBMC.
Jaken Wrote:@sraue
Why only model B? With a usb ethernet adapter the model A should be equally useful for XBMC.
It certainly should now that the Model A has the same RAM complement as the Model B, and the only remaining difference is the lack of ethernet.
Perhaps sraue based his opinion on the Model A as it was originally specified with only 128MB RAM, which may not have been sufficient to run XBMC.
- BORIStheBLADE - 2012-03-01 16:57
So does anyone think other manufacturer are going to try and make something like this? I was thinking about maybe waiting for V2 of the R Pi maybe..
Thoughts??
- PaulC2K - 2012-03-01 17:23
BORIStheBLADE Wrote:So does anyone think other manufacturer are going to try and make something like this? I was thinking about maybe waiting for V2 of the R Pi maybe..
Thoughts??
Theres certainly others in the pipeline, one was posted on here a few pages back, but this isnt really the place to discuss them, but yeah im certain we'll see plenty of development in this area, and i'd be very surprised if devices like RasPi arent one day integrated into devices like TVs to instantly give the owner the basic features of a home PC & media center.
If the Pi can be produced and sold for £30 at a profit, imagine what the likes of Sony, Samsung, Panasonic etc could do by selling their customers the latest TV with integrated PC/Media Center or whatever they wanted to wrap it up as. Something like that would easily justify adding £100 onto the rrp cost of a base model. All in 1 remote too, no wires, just a network cable, hell they could add wifi if they wanted.
- bboo - 2012-03-01 17:37
^Yep, i could see all of the above happening. This might be just the beginning of a golden age for media PC integration into TVs.
