Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Sat 4th Nov 2006 01:11 UTC
Multimedia, AV Apple is working furiously to get their ITV product into market early next year. However, this type of product is not a new idea. There have been a number of similar remote multimedia products since 2003, most based off the Syabas software stack. Geeks.com were very generous sending us over ADS' MXL-581 Media-Link Entertainment Receiver for a review, a Syabas-based device that's using the uCOS-II real-time kernel (introduction [.pdf]). Check inside for our review and many screenshots of the system.
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RE[3]: S-video can't do HD
by Eugenia on Sat 4th Nov 2006 07:17 UTC in reply to "RE[2]: S-video can't do HD"
Eugenia
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2005-06-28

I never said that I ran HD video on my TV via an HD cable. I used the cable it came with. You will have to purchase different cables in order to output from the other ports. I have an HDTV, but of course, normal video was output'ed from it, not an HD signal. The device is not able to decode HD video, but it is able to go high on resolution for other stuff.

Also, there are no input video ports. All video is coming via Ethernet or Wifi.

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RE[4]: S-video can't do HD
by netpython on Sat 4th Nov 2006 08:29 in reply to "RE[3]: S-video can't do HD"
netpython Member since:
2005-07-06

The device is not able to decode HD video,

You mean the MXL-581 multimedia HUB isn't capable of decoding HDTV MPEG2?

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RE[5]: S-video can't do HD
by Eugenia on Sat 4th Nov 2006 09:09 in reply to "RE[4]: S-video can't do HD"
Eugenia Member since:
2005-06-28

I didn't try Mpeg2 (I don't have any such sample videos), but the DivX HD video I have here for my tests didn't work. It would playback about 1 frame per second...

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