[HH] NeTV: open source Google TV hardware?

[Kurt Keville]

Looks like it has a half-way decent ARM processor and a SPARTAN 3 
FPGA... which would make it a good buy for $120 (if you wanted to use 
it for something else)... hmm... I know AppleTVs have been 
clusterized, don't know about GoogleTVs...

http://www.mnm-team.org/projects/ATV2CLUSTER/

At 02:47 AM 3/8/2012, Drew Van Zandt wrote:
>"Kits" don't have to pass FCC part 15 certification tests.
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>On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 2:39 AM, Tom Metro 
><<mailto:tmetro%2Bhhacking at gmail.com>tmetro+hhacking at gmail.com> wrote:
>adafruit is selling NeTV, a $119 kit (you put the board into the
>supplied plastic case - not sure why they bothered making it a "kit"),
>that has hardware similar to a Google TV, which lets you pass HDMI
>signals through it and overlay graphics.
>
>It is open source hardware created by "the lead hardware engineer of the
>chumby internet alarm clock."
>
><http://www.adafruit.com/products/609>http://www.adafruit.com/products/609
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>I'm not sure what CPU it uses. The HDMI overlay is accomplished with a
>Xilinx FPGA. "The FPGA is managed using a convenient set of built-in
>command-line tools. You can modify the NeTV's video processing
>capability using Xilinx's free Webkit development environment. Or, you
>can repurpose the FPGA for entirely new functionality; the sky's the limit!"
>
>It runs "Angstrom linux...running Webkit that features chroma-key video
>compositing. Out of the box, the reference firmware enables the overlay
>of Facebook and Twitter feeds, and SMSes from Android phones. The UI is
>written in Javascript/HTML, making it easy and fast to develop your
>custom application."
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>Also has a WiFi radio and a cheesy IR remote.
>
>Not clear if it is actually any good at video decoding, or if it only
>has enough horsepower to show relatively static overlays. No mention of
>video decompression hardware.
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>Hmmm...if it ran XBMC or Android it would be more interesting.
>
>I think I'd rather start with a platform capable of being an HD
>streaming video player and run open enough software that permits adding
>custom overlay data, rather than bother with a device dedicated to
>displaying custom overlay data.
>
>  -Tom
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