Humax 9200T
The Humax 9200T PVR is available from Dabs for £210. Not only is it a good digital TV PVR with two tuners and a 160Gb HDD, but it might be able to support Linux as well. Here is some information that I’ve been able to scrape together from various sites on the net.
The CPU appears to be a uPD61120 “EMMA2″ MIPS-based processor with integrated MPEG decoder. It also seems to have a Philips ISP1581 device USB controller. And a JTAG port, but I’m not sure if you’d have to wire it up manually. This information is visible in string data sections of the Humax firmware, but if anyone could confirm it and find out what other chips are in the box..?
It seems ripe for a Linux port with MythTV or Freevo. This might be difficult, but the possibility is there: linux-mips has support for VR4111-type chips, MythTV and Freevo provide the user-land control software. This assumes that the two tuners in the 9200T are in the many supported by LinuxTV, the Linux DVB tuner drivers project.
Seeing as Christmas is coming, I could be tempted 
3 comments November 26th, 2005