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Users / Re: Dusky Sky Controller
« on: January 11, 2009, 09:08:45 pm »
Hi Andrew/Ian,
Ian: not much of what Andrew's talking about has to be done through Diademo equipment. So it should be possible on 810 with or without Andrew's Company. On the other hand, the Diademo stuff looks pretty good. Why not?
Andrew: thanks for the summary. I've rummaged through your site, and the components you offer are IMHO well put together for LinuxMCE. I know your bias is the total home solution, and I think that combined with substantially better value for money than the AMD/Crestron/Clipsal approach is a winning combination.
I haven't decided whether to go centralised or distributed yet, but I'm leaning towards distributed.
Routing HDMI over dual-CAT-5 is expensive, and not very flexible it seems to me. I can see why you have to offer it - it's about the only way to offer the ultimate HD multi-room experience without clutter.
Sky-HD is a pain in the butt: the only decent HD source, and it requires the box to see the TV directly over HDMI. Awkward (but not impossible) to put something like LinuxMCE in the way.
To be honest, HD is an awful lot of money for very little improvement in the viewing experience.
IPTv seems like a good solution, as long as we don't run out of bandwidth. VideoLan showed me how capable that approach could be.
Can't do that for HD, though.
Roll on 50Mbit ISPs and TV-over-internet I say.
Cheers,
Andy Ward
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will this be part of 0810? i.e not only Dianemo systems, (get back to work, devs Grin ),
what hardware/capture cards are required?
Ian: not much of what Andrew's talking about has to be done through Diademo equipment. So it should be possible on 810 with or without Andrew's Company. On the other hand, the Diademo stuff looks pretty good. Why not?
Andrew: thanks for the summary. I've rummaged through your site, and the components you offer are IMHO well put together for LinuxMCE. I know your bias is the total home solution, and I think that combined with substantially better value for money than the AMD/Crestron/Clipsal approach is a winning combination.
I haven't decided whether to go centralised or distributed yet, but I'm leaning towards distributed.
Routing HDMI over dual-CAT-5 is expensive, and not very flexible it seems to me. I can see why you have to offer it - it's about the only way to offer the ultimate HD multi-room experience without clutter.
Sky-HD is a pain in the butt: the only decent HD source, and it requires the box to see the TV directly over HDMI. Awkward (but not impossible) to put something like LinuxMCE in the way.
To be honest, HD is an awful lot of money for very little improvement in the viewing experience.
IPTv seems like a good solution, as long as we don't run out of bandwidth. VideoLan showed me how capable that approach could be.
Can't do that for HD, though.
Roll on 50Mbit ISPs and TV-over-internet I say.
Cheers,
Andy Ward