[Gllug] pervasive computing - everything crashes

Rev Simon Rumble simon at rumble.net
Wed Nov 2 16:22:54 UTC 2005


On 2/11/2005, "Sean Burlington" <sean at uncertainty.org.uk> wrote:

>- and I'm fed up with my TV crashing - I keep having to reboot the set
>top box...

Ditto my Homechoice STB.  Useless phuckers.

>Does anyone know which freeview STB brands/models have the best stability?

Make your own from a MiniITX case and DVB-t card?  Chuck in a hard drive
and you've got a PVR.  Can't vouch for stability of the software
though.

>- are any of them at all open?

I believe the Topfield PVR is, and it has a thriving hack community:
http://www.nslu2-linux.org/wiki/Puppy/HomePage
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