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A call for an open media gadget

A call for an open media gadget

Posted May 19, 2005 7:13 UTC (Thu) by komarek (guest, #7295)
In reply to: A call for an open media gadget by pj
Parent article: A call for an open media gadget

The Neuros folks really do seem to have their hearts in the right place. Both the electronics and the software have been opened. I'm running a beta firmware, and third-party firmwares (with some crazy features) are now available.

Another company that I like so far is Momitsu. I have their 880N networked DVD player. It arrived region-free. It is running uCLinux (on a Sigma Designs board). They use apache+tomcat for their network media server. When I emailed support, one of the responses was something like "Many of our users know more about our player than we do. If you have a hardware enhancement that you would like us to incorporate, please send photos along with a detailed description." They also read their tech support email on Saturdays.


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