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Re: Whatever happened to our hobby?
« on: May 25, 2011, 05:53:39 PM »
As small as they are, I wonder how much of a stretch it would be to just start putting commodity Arm 1.1ghz dual core CPUs and a build of android - basically a cell phone - inside any and all TVs these days?

Just pop it in there in and amongst all the other circuitry, stick an SD slot on the side of the TV for folks who want more storage...bam, Mr. and Mrs. Livingroom can phone up Jane and Johnny while they're at the university, play Angry Birds, look at photos, etc. all on the TV, no screwing around with a dedicated computer.  Just use the remote.

At commodity prices it could hardly cost more than a few bucks to outfit each TV thusly.

(Plus it'd hurt Apple, and I'm all for that.)
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Re: Whatever happened to our hobby?
« Reply #1 on: May 25, 2011, 07:48:45 PM »
Quote from: persia;640224
What if Apple did an all-in-one TV/iTV?


they kind of already tried that

Abject failure. :P

But anyway, I mean just a TV - samsung, LG, Sony, whoever...with an embedded dual-core ARM solution running 'droid with a built-in 3g connection.  My wife's Kindle has one, always on, always free.  Why not integrate all of this and have done with?
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Re: Whatever happened to our hobby?
« Reply #2 on: May 26, 2011, 02:30:04 AM »
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A large percentage of modern flat screen TV's already almost has this. A lot of the Samsung TV's runs Linux, for example. Mine has a USB slot, not SD, but it'll start a media player if you plug any mass storage USB device in it.

EDIT: Take a look here: http://www.crunchgear.com/2010/03/24/hack-your-samsung-tv-linux-guy/
EDIT2: And here for LG TV's: http://mikko.korkalo.fi/openlgtv/


NICE.  Very nice.  I'd like to see more of this.
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