Registered: Aug 2000
Location: Southlake, Tx, USA
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Another TiVo Competitor ( with a twist )

This is kind of an undergound topic.

Nokia is ( suposedly ) coming out with a new box for your living
room. It is supposed to do:
hard disk records and pauses live TV, it stores and plays digital photos and video, and plays MP3 music files. The media terminal even comes with its own video games, and the potential to download more games off the Internet.

the article goes on to say:
One problem though. Nokia's media terminal isn't a digital video recorder like TiVo. It's a personal computer in sheep's clothing, and it runs the Linux operating system.

Nokia's marketing folks might get upset when they read this, because Nokia doesn't like to call the media terminal a PC. But it is one, as the engineers who built it will admit.


See more info at: http://www0.mercurycenter.com/svtec...okoia011401.htm

If it runs linux... it can't be all bad.


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