RSSMyka announces its latest Linux-based 'net top box'
By Tim Conneally | Published November 6, 2009, 5:45 PM
Early in the summer, IPTV startup Myka delivered an impressive Linux-based device which was not quite a set-top box and not quite a home theater PC (HTPC). Though the device's identity was sort of nebulous, the company's goal was crystal clear: to easily make the tons of different types of Internet video content viewable on the TV.
This week, the company has announced its second device, the Myka ION, which pushes itself up against the HTPC category. Because it's equipped with a 1.6 GHz dual core Intel Atom 330 CPU, it could even be called a "net-top box."
Whatever you want to call it, Myka is really charging toward its goal of making the vast spectrum of Web video available in an easy and compact way. Since the ION is effectively an Ubuntu 9.10 mini ITX PC, it can run popular media manager software Boxee and XMBC alongside the Hulu desktop client -- a bit of useful software which neither Boxee nor XMBC can actually run themselves.
In case the name didn't already give it away, the Myka ION is equipped with an Nvidia ION GPU which supports DirectX 10 graphics, and full 1080p HD video without overtaxing the CPUs.
The company expects it to be shipping in about four weeks, and it will be available in various configurations, with different capacity hard drive sizes (up to 1 TB) and with additional options like a Blu-ray drive, and 802.11n wireless.
We'll give it a closer look when it becomes available before the holidays.
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|While it's an interesting and useful product, at $379 it's overpriced. Builders can build the same or better for $300 or so and people who want a net-top can get one for roughly $300 as well...meaning you're paying Myka to slap Boxee and Hulu, or Karmic Koala on there, or at the very least for that Myka interface.
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|this is not about builders.. this is more about a retail product that "just works"
Its more designed to compete with say an AppleTV and the Popcorn hour devices or a more advanced version of one of the various single purpose boxes (from roku, or netflix etc)
Sure a tech savvy computer builder with linux experience can buy a SFF PC, or a mac mini or whatever and throw linux, and boxee or even windows and boxee/xbmc/etc on it.. but again this is more from that guy from the office that saw your fancy video stuff and wanted one for himself.. but doesnt want to do it himself (and more importantly that YOu dont want to support
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|Who's Myka ? What's Linux ?
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|In case you want more information now, here's a link to more information. http://www.myka.tv/ There are videos, descriptions, and the all-important list of specs, the video and audio formats supported, and a rear view, showing all the interfaces.
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