Neuros planning for the OSD3

Posted on 28 July 2009, at 8:51 am, by Joel McLaughlin

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I follow Joe Born(@joeborn) and Neuros Technology(@neurostech) on twitter and I read his blog and generally love Neuros Technology as a company. They stand behind their products. They also run open source software on their devices and have quite a community behind their products. I also own a OSD and one of their original products, a MP3 player. I still use both on a regular basis. Well, imagine my excitement seeing Joe’s tweet regarding the OSD 3:

“..it’s probably two years off, but this time Texas Instruments is involved early: discussion of the OSD3: http://bit.ly/Qt5sl”

If you go to the forum, you can read all of Joe’s initial post and also have some input on what you think a good recording device like Neuros’s OSD line should work like.

Joe states that the following regarding the OSD 3.

1. We’re probably a good 18 months away from a consumer product (minimum/optimistic I’d say)
2. It will be full 1080p/60 capable on both encoding and decoding (h.264, etc) with *official* support for that performance from TI
3. It will combine a solid ARM core as well. As you’d expect it will only be a step up from Cortex A8 OMAP 35x
4. Its targeted at the high end, the initial spec we’re talking about 2GB of DDR3 memory so this is a full HD solution, not a $99 Roku device.
5. A full solid web browser is a pre-requisite. This means HTML5, Full Adobe flash support, including Hulu HD and the like.

This sounds similar to the Neuros Link which I will be reviewing soon. This devices will be different than the Link as this device will also include recording as part of the project like the original OSD. The OSD 2 has yet to be released as a consumer product, but Neuros is planning to stay in the game and is asking for your input on the OSD 3.