Broadband Alternatives to WebTV? 25
tlon asks:
"A friend recently approached me asking if there are any hardware
alternatives to WebTV that allow for high speed internet access.
For the unaware, WebTV is a dial-only solution, and does not allow for
broadband. While there are several promising digital dish solutions
cropping up, I've found none that leverage high speed cable networks.
What set-top solutions are available for the computer illiterate
consumer that allow access via a broadband network (aka Cablemodem).
Perhaps some of these solutions leverage Linux on the back end?"
Re:Forget surfing the internet from your TV (Score:1)
Re:Forget surfing the internet from your TV (Score:1)
WebTV -> The greatest porn finding machine ever invented.
AOL Set Top Box (Score:1)
Saw a story about this the other day (Score:1, Informative)
A portable web tablet or accesing the web through HDTV never looked cooler, just a shame no one is making a profit doing it.
Dish PVR 701 (Score:4, Interesting)
Preorders being taken [dishdepot.com]
3com Audrey (Score:4, Interesting)
Unfortunately surplus seems to be the best bet as no sane company is producing such devices at this time... AFAIK, YMMV, etc etc etc (god I hate this stupid disclaimers)
free rant:
Why do we feel the need to use all these disclaimers? Shouldn't any intelligent person recognize that anything one says is ones opinion unless it is explicitly backed up by fact? Wouldn't we just note the facts and if no notation is made there are no facts so it is obviously a personal opinion? Does this have something to do with the lawyers? Argh!
Get an IPAQ IA-1 and USB ethernet adaptor (Score:2)
LLAMA
dreamcast? (Score:2)
NIC (Score:1)
x-box??? (Score:1)
ingenious really... if you're willing to wait a few years... heck sony might be doing the same with ps3...