"A year ago, Linux seemed poised to take on the living room, in the form of home media center PCs and systems. But last year's product announcements have not materialized into this year's Linux-based consumer systems. Before losing her job at the helm of Hewlett-Packard, CEO Carly Fiorina peppered a Consumer Electronics Show keynote with word of HP's coming Media Hub, a machine capable of television and display-centric computing that ran on Linux. The machine, announced alongside the company's latest PC-centric Digital Entertainment Center systems running Windows XP Media Center, was promised by fall of 2005. Today, it is nowhere to be found."
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Member since:Well no, I don't trust wikipedia. I just remembered this newsheadline about britannica vs wikipedia. I never bothered to look any deeper, if I'd do that for every newsline I'd have a full time job at it.
But yea, after looking at what theregister had to say about it. Wikipedia doesn't seem that great in being correct.
Whatever is correct, I don't know. I just believe what feels right to me. Obviously I'm very subjective, I don't believe objectivity exists.
And it's right, I should get the information from the source. That's what's best, and if I can't get something from the source I could just as well not believe it for that matter.
So to conclude I'd better not look at osnews to absorb these newslines without much investigation on my part. Because it just creates a false reality, doesn't it?
I guess that's true for all news media.
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I think these so called multimedia centers are not taking off because they are too complicated.
Here at home I even find it difficult to navigate trough tv channels and switch to the dvdplayer with the 3 remotecontrols the TV has...
It would be simpler to sell TV's which have these functions included, so you can have 1 remote and 1 device to turn on.
But I still wouldn't buy that because I don't need it.
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Yes, continue using Wikipedia as a reference when even it's founder and maintainer claims it has serious quality issues.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/10/18/wikipedia_quality_problem/
But atleast YOU trust it.