Friday, July 18, 2014

All-in-one home entertainment (satellite TV + PVR, IP TV + apps, and Media Centre)

So I am still undecided on media-center / IP TV (Android, etc) and PVR combo .. I'd like an all-in-one am a little surprised why there isn't a clean one yet.

Bucket-list:

  1. 2 satellite receivers
  2. a couple of terrabytes of storage - for existing picture, music and movies + recorded stuff
  3. a media browser and viewer
  4. ability to run Internet apps either native or in browser such as Spotify, various On-demand sites, Youtube,  random web-sites etc
Given all that I could have an Android TV stick, a media centre and a PVR - but really? Each are developing at their own pace and the lines are blurring but still there seem big gaps. Surprising really .. Throwing asterisk in there to be able to make audio and video calls would be good too.

So this thread will be for experiments along this lines to see what works 

First cab off the rank (given I can take the PMD server offline for a bit) is GeexBox on my Raspberry Pi.