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.

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I know there’s alot of people excited by Apple’s news today.  I realize they are indeed nice devices, however I am a more open kind of guy.  Plus since I just got a Neuros OSD myself, I was amazed to see that the new OSD 2.0 device is now shipping to developers.  It’s been shipping for about a month now as theinquirer.net already has one and it’s been posted on Crunchgear but I must have missed it.

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The expected specs of the OSD 2.0 are 720p(1924×768) or D1(720×480)H.264 +AAC/AC3/MP3 Encoding; 720p playback with up to 1080i with certain content; Supporting H.264, MPEG2, MPEG4 and WMV codecs;Composite/Component Input: 2 composite input, 1 component input, all with dedicated stereo audio;Composite/Component Input: 2 composite input, 1 component input, all with dedicated stereo audio;RCA Audio I/O;2 USB ports in rear, 1 in front, and 1 internal to housing.

All of this is stuffed in to a Mini-ITX case which means you can install a internal hard disk, a slimline Optical Drive and more into this baby truly making it your own device.

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