For those who don’t know, the primary part of the Neuros Link is the Neuros.TV website that helps you find content on your Neuros Link from the web.  Well, Joe has let me know that you are not just stuck with whatever Neuros and their hackers will give you.  Now if you know of a site where a stream of a TV show is, you can add it via a link near the bottom of the page.  The Neuros Link and its companion site are attempting to extend the tradition of users adding content similar to how the cddb (which is now Gracenote) was started.  If you know of a site that carries the content you’ve searched for, you can now added it to the Neuros.TV website.

This Gamma device looks like it could beat Boxee and XBMC in functionality once the Gamma is ready for general users.  It’s almost there now, according to my friend, Linc Fessenden.

Oh, and one other thing that the Neuros Link does that Boxee doesn’t do is use Firefox for the actual video you see on your TV for sites like Hulu.  That makes it impossible to block from Hulu’s standpoint, as if they block Firefox, they block a good chunk of their audience.  If you’re looking for a nice, low resource box to use to watch Hulu, the Link is it.

Neuros has long offered bounties on different development projects that enhance their products; one I have been semi excited for is Netflix Streaming.  Well, sundevil98 has managed to get it working on the Link according to Joe.  He did it by installing Mediamall’s Playon software on top of XBMC.  The next version of the software on the Link should have XBMC built into it.  Eventually, Neuros will have a native client on the Link, but for now, this will allow you to stream movies from Netflix!

Joe Born has posted the first bounties for the Neuros Link.

The first bounty is $2500 for getting Netflix working directly on the Neuros Link, or $500 when working through a intermediary PC.  This bounty has some stipulations: The programmer must beat Boxee, Ubuntu or Netflix themselves with the functionality.  All of these people are working on getting Netflix streaming to work on on Linux.  Once any of them get it working, the bounty is unavailable as they can easily incorporate this into the Neuros Link.

The second bounty is the Move Networks plugin.  The lucky hacker will get $2000 if they get it working and $2500 if it works in Firefox.

The third bounty is another biggie: Getting pre-purchased iTunes music from the iTMS to play on the Neuros Link.  $1000 is the bounty on this one.

The fourth bounty is a Network/Wireless Network wizard for $750.

The fifth is a Video Resolution/Xorg settings changer, also for $750.

The sixth is a error problem reporter collector, and the bounty for this is $500.

The seventh is upgrade applet that will work on TV for $750.

For details on these and how to claim them, please check out the OdNT Blog.

Joe also posted that the Neuros Link is now available from every geek’s favorite site, ThinkGeek.com.

Was going through my feed list and noticed Joe posted a update on the OdNT Blog about Joost and the Neuros Link.  Joost, which came from the creators of Skype and Kazaa, started out as a client you loaded on your computer that was similar to Boxee.  Now it’s a flash video site very similar to Hulu.  Well it too is now supported on the Neuros Link!

Even though most people don’t even have the Neuros Link yet, Neuros is at work adding features to the Link in the form of Amazon’s Unbox video on demand service.  Now you can use your Neuros Link to watch any of the 20,000 titles you can rent via Amazon’s service.  They are still hard at work trying to improve the device as I type this.  The Neuros Link should be THE set top box to order on cyber monday!

Still being very geeked about the announcement from Neuros, at lunch I was perusing the forums on the Neuros site and discovered just how hackable the Neuros Link will be.  The answer is: VERY

The Neuros Link is running Ubuntu 8.10 according to Joe Born’s post in the forum and the specs page.  That means that you can pretty much run any variant of Ubuntu on it.  Joe himself has installed Boxee on the Neuros Link, so it may even be possible to get Mythbuntu running on the box since you can probably add a USB Tuner to it as well.

UPDATE: Found more….the Neuros Link runs a Athlon CPU, so it’s x86 box!  This is VERY good news!