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AHT, a new Dutch set-top-box manufacturer, today releasesd a new generation set-top-box which connects the TV to the Internet. It can also be used as hard-disk recorder, for Internet telephony and for digital TV. The product's software is released under open source license, and runs an embedded LinuxOS. [ I checked the webshob. €310 ($458) for a fully hackable developer box, including Linux desktop and support from two universities when using P2P; that's neat! - hkwint ]
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AHT, a new Dutch set-top-box manufacturer, will release a product for the open source community called the "Tribbox". The Tribbox is a new generation set-top-box which connects the TV to the Internet. It can also be used as hard-disk recorder, for internet telephony and for digital TV. Since the product's software is released under open source license, the technology is is available for everybody to experiment with and to make new products with.
The Tribbox is based on STMicroelectronics' ST7109 HDTV single chip H264 decoder, embedding a real time Linux OS.
Tribler is developed at Delft University of Technology in cooperation with the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. They will help with supporting everybody who will use the Tribler peer-to-peer software. The Tribler Peer-to-Peer technology can be used to exchange files, movies and music and to watch Television. Furthermore, Tribler is "Social" software, which means that within Tribler you can meet your friends and taste-buddies. These related persons can help you with finding and downloading the piece you are looking for. The more you help others, the more you may expect in return.
The TU Delft is of course happy that Tribler will be used in an open-source set-top-box. "Tribler is being developed as an open platform for watching film and music in a pleasant way."
Tribbox runs Linux and is delivered with all documentation, programming guides and development software, as well as a Linux desktop distribution with many sample programs.
The Tribbox developer system is a member of AHT's ST7109 based family of business-to-business (oem) and business-to-consumer products. The first consumer product "Ariana Media Center", to be released under AHT's own "Allsii" consumer brand, will be introduced at the CES show in Las Vegas, in January 2008.
Tribbox will be available directly from AHT's online Allsii shop:
[HYPERLINK@www.allsiishop.com]
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