What I would like to see is an Amiga that is likely that the mass-marked would want and buy.
Look at what people are buying right now:
- Big screen TV's that also handles PC-input
- DVD/Harddrive movie recorders
- MediaCenter PC's
- sattelite/cable/Terrestial receivers
So basicly I would like to see an Amiga product that can be a full blown media box that can connect to the HD-TV and handle all these things, and the same time can be used as a computer running OS4.
-And offcourse this product should be there right NOW:)
I have a Dreambox at home and this is a Linux/PPC sattelite receiver thing that already can do many of these things. Its only 250MHz so its rather slow in computer terms, but its some years old already. Still it can record TV to hardrive, play music and movies stored on the harddrive, it can connect to the internet and browse it (although not the most modern browser). Some models have a plug-in module system so you can have two different tuners in, eg one for sattelite and one for Cable or Terrestial. Some models allows you to add a DVD as well. You can get a wireless keyboard for it as well, but the OS's that are made for it does not make use of the box as a full computer.
So what I would like to see is a box like the above, but with more modern specs and running on AmigaOS. It should be sold and marketed like a all-purpose mediabox, and should have a media interface executed by default on startup while AmigaOS is running in the background so that computer novices did not even need to know its was a computer they was using. The AmigaOS workbench should be easy available from the mediainterface, and offcourse configurable so that you could start it like a normal Amiga and just launch the mediainterface when needed. Also there should be some audio-video inputs as well so you could record and edit from any video source.
It is possible today to make a box that can do all this, using a regular pc as a base and adding DVB-S or DVB-T pci cards. But I have yet to see this put together in a full package, and even if it was, I still think the software solutions available today are not quite good enaugh to make this userfriendly enaugh for the end user.
