Neuros OSD 2 Developer Kits now on Sale
Posted on 22 September 2008, at 3:38 pm, by Joel McLaughlin
As a huge fan of the Neuros OSD and Neuros in general, I’m excited to tell you that Neuros has announced the follow up to the OSD, the OSD2 is now on sale for $249.99 in the Neuros Store. Now this isn’t intended for end users just yet, but when it is it will bring High Definition to the OSD platform.
The OSD is very powerful, and you can do things with it that you can’t do with any other set top box thanks to the open technology that it’s built upon. Just this week, I have discovered the uPNP Media features of the OSD, and I was streaming music from my laptop to the OSD connected to my TV. If the OSD is any indication of what’s in store for us in the OSD 2, then I think we have a exciting device on it’s way. The only limit of the OSD and OSD2 are the limits of the programmers and the limits of the users. The OSD didn’t do as much when it first shipped as it does now; the OSD2 won’t be any different.
Just so you and the other hackers know, the OSD 2 isn’t based on X86 technology even though it looks like it might be. The OSD 2 is powered by the TI’s DaVinci DM 6446 chipset; it’s esentially a system on a chip. However, I never put anything past open source developers. I have heard many people theorize that this could be the perfect Myth TV box. Myth TV, for those who don’t know, is a Open Source DVR package. To have a box with HDMI Out, Component in and out, and Composite in and outputs; you’d now have a box that can do anything from standard definition TV all the way up to 1080i.
If that was all it could do, it would be a great device, but you can also install a slimline optical drive as well as a internal hard drive (not included). Most companies like Sony or Philips would ship you a sealed box and not expect you to want to program it or to hack and put different things inside of it; Neuros is different. Neuros doesn’t mind if you open it up and tinker, in fact they encourage it. Odds are, when the OSD 2 finishes its run, it will do much more than the current beta software is already capable of doing.
I am looking forward to getting to play with one of these!
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