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News Microsoft launches Windows on Devices

Discussion in 'Article Discussion' started by Gareth Halfacree, 19 Aug 2014.

  1. Gareth Halfacree

    Gareth Halfacree WIIGII! Lover of bit-tech Administrator Super Moderator Moderator

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    Gareth Halfacree, 19 Aug 2014
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  2. Guinevere

    Guinevere Mega Mom

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    Oooohh a 'new' version of Windows. Just what the world has been asking for, there's never ever been enough different versions for my tastes.
     
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  3. Nexxo

    Nexxo * Prefab Sprout – The King of Rock 'n' Roll

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    I'd settle for a decent media centre. Seriously, can't we just have a Galileo with a dual TV tuner plug-on board running a dedicated lightweight version of Windows MCE or XBMC? Is that too much to ask? Or is this going to be another glaringly obvious market that Microsoft fails to exploit?
     
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  4. RedFlames

    RedFlames ...is not a Belgian football team

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    FTFY [link], and MS would probably argue that's what the XBone is for... even though it only has the one tuner [iirc], and even then it's an optional extra... that isn't on sale yet...
     
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  5. Nexxo

    Nexxo * Prefab Sprout – The King of Rock 'n' Roll

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    Sure, a huge power-hungry box that can only have a single tuner added as a dongle. I mean, they built a console on PC architecture in a big, spatious box; can't even implement add-one as internal PCIe cards, like, you know, a PC.

    Epic fail all around.
     
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  6. Gareth Halfacree

    Gareth Halfacree WIIGII! Lover of bit-tech Administrator Super Moderator Moderator

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    I recently reviewed the Matrix Mini-PC: quad-core Freescale i.MX6 ARMv7 with a mini-PCIe slot suitable for digital TV tuners (with more tuners supported via USB) and a pre-loaded version of XBMC (as it was known back then.) That the sort of thing you're after?
     
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  7. Nexxo

    Nexxo * Prefab Sprout – The King of Rock 'n' Roll

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    That is the droid I'm looking for. Thanks! :)

    EDIT: although why do they always have to have only one SATA port?!?
     
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  8. Anfield

    Anfield Multimodder

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    So you still buy a NAS:D

    Or to put it differently: Why has no NAS manufacturer thought of integrating TV Tuners and XBMC yet?
     
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  9. Nexxo

    Nexxo * Prefab Sprout – The King of Rock 'n' Roll

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    Indeed. Would seem such an obvious thing to do!
     
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  10. jinq-sea

    jinq-sea 'write that down in your copy book' Super Moderator

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    They are supporting TV tuners streaming to XBMC (sorry, whatever it's now called), via this:

    DVBLink
     
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  11. Nexxo

    Nexxo * Prefab Sprout – The King of Rock 'n' Roll

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    Still not an all-in-one package. We just need a NAS with dual TV tuner running some media server software. Seems a simple idea, but in practice we just get a lot of different boxes (each needing their own power supply) doing a few tasks but not all of them, having to be set up in an elaborate network.
     
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  12. IvanIvanovich

    IvanIvanovich будет глотать вашу душу.

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    I wonder if it's possible to get that running on an old slot1 Pentium :lol: It is essentially the same thing as a Galileo ignoring the vast differences in physical size.
     
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  13. Gareth Halfacree

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    Slot 1 was Pentium II, a different microarchitecture; the Pentium on which Quark is based was Socket 7.
     
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  14. RedFlames

    RedFlames ...is not a Belgian football team

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    Wonder if I still have my skt 7 Pentium... a whopping 100MHz [t'was my very first pc]...
     
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  15. IvanIvanovich

    IvanIvanovich будет глотать вашу душу.

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    Whoops my bad, but you get my gist.
     
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  16. Corky42

    Corky42 Where's walle?

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    So a PC then ?
    EDIT: Not sure if this is the kind of thing you mean...
    http://dvblogic.com/wiki/index.php/FAQ
     
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  17. Nexxo

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    Except a low power, passively cooled, really compact PC with built-in dual tuner.
     
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  18. GuilleAcoustic

    GuilleAcoustic Ook ? Ook !

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    Something like this pico-ITX Bay-trail Atom (single, dual or quad cores):

    http://www.kontron.com/products/boa...bedded-sbc/pitx-25-sbc/pitx-e38/specification

    [​IMG]
    The picture shows an IDE connector, but it's also available with a SATA only or both PATA and SATA.

    With one of those mPCIe tuners: http://shop.digital-devices.de/epag...es/TVCard_Octopus_Serie/Octopus_fuer_miniPCIe

    [​IMG]

    If you need a CAM module, they are also available on their site and need no extra PCIe slot (plug directly of the tuner): http://shop.digital-devices.de/epag...Shops/62357162/Categories/Zubehoer/CAM_Module
     
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