On Mon, 05 Mar 2012 13:39:16 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

Ooo. Just thought of another use with the addition of a USB DSAT
or
DDTV dongle. An off air digital radio receiver so one doesn't need
the telly on. Controlable over its ethernet port via a web
interface
(one assumes the linux it comes with has a web server?). This
could
be expanded to an internet radio as well if one wasn't worried
about
gobbling up (possibly expensive) internet bandwidth.

no FLASH plugins - so no web radio IIRC.

Cos most Beeb content is flash,.

AIUI Flash is only a wrapper around standard coded streams, I think
there is some link with DRM in there though just to make life
difficult.

Makes a good ON AIR RX with a dongle tho. Has it got sound?

Yes, little point in having HDMI and the abilty to process
information fast enough to produce HDTV signals with out sound...

Except you need a [more expensive than a TV] monitor..

I don't follow what you are saying there. Why do you need a monitor?
A Pi has HDMI out just plug it into a telly and get both pictures and
sound.

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Cheers
Dave.