Cool in a Box
The Dream Multimedia DM-7025 is possibly the coolest thing ever. Notwithstanding my previous post about the desirability of the Humax 9200T, the DM-7025 is far, far cooler. Let me give you the highlights:
- PowerPC processor
- Linux
- Ethernet port
- 2 DVB-T tuners
- HDD
So it would seem that it is the perfect platform – you could probably reflash it and put a web interface on it to set the record function over the net. Very, very cool.
The downsides to all this (because there have to be some, obviously) are that the DVB-T version doesn’t seem to be available yet and the DVB-S version costs about £400. Given that you could buy a whole computer and outfit it with dual cheap DVB-T cards (these apparently work in Linux) and a 300Gb HDD for about £360, it doesn’t seem worth it…
1 comment March 20th, 2006