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!

Have you ever wanted to watch the stuff on Hulu, NBC.com, CBS or CNN.com on your TV but you didn’t want to build a PC to do this with?  Well, new you can thanks to Neuros!  Neuros has introduced the Neuros Link today on their website and it supports those 4 sites and many others plus local video in up to 1080p on your HDTV!  It’s now available for $299.99 and there is NO subscription service either!  Plus it comes with a spiffy wireless keyboard as well.  Neuros keeps impressing me time and time again!  I can’t wait to look at this device!  Now I really need to get a HDTV…

The winner of the Neuros OSD giveaway is none other than Dann Washko of the Linux Link Tech Show.  The comment my son pulled out of the hat is below:

I did not see if the Neuros had a built in webserver but that would be great. To be able to stream the movies over this server like MythWeb does. As for home movies, having the ability to easily upload to youtube would be beneficial. Support for file systems other than fat32 to avoid the 2gb limitation. As a Linux user I would like to see more documentation on their site about using the device in Linux. Right now I see a lot of Windows and OS X docs. Transcoding into other formats would be nice too instead of just mp4. This may tax the device though. Fuser support, particularly sshfs.

Enjoy your OSD!

This contest is now closed, and a winner will be announced shortly. Thank you for participating!

As a fan and advocate of open source software, I’ve got a lot of love for companies like Neuros.  Now I have another reason to love them: Neuros is sponsoring an OSD give-away on Gear Diary!

To win, all you have to do is post an idea of something you would like the Neuros OSD (or the as yet unreleased OSD2) to do out of the box that it can’t do already.  For example, my wish would be that it include a web browser.  You can’t steal my idea, so come up with one of your own!

The contest starts right now, and it will end on Sunday the 9th at midnight; a winner will be selected shortly after.  The winner will be selected at random from all entries, and they will be notified via e-mail by Judie (so add judie@geardiary.com to your “safe” list, ASAP). Since Neuros is shipping directly to the winner, this contest will be open to participants in the United States only.

So let’s get those brains going, and be sure to go over to the Neuros Technology website to check out all the cool stuff that the Neuros can already do!

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. Continue Reading