Depends if you have a need for one and if it's capable of filling those needs.
Nerds assemble! Raspberry pi close to launch date.
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Depends if you have a need for one and if it's capable of filling those needs.
Got the same email
It's 700Mhz micro computer with 1080p x264 video playback capabilities, and uses around 4 watts of power, which is around £4 per year running 24/7. And it only costs £22-29.
So you tell me...
Whooo got RS email
I got this one:
But I got mine ordered from Farnell last Saturday.
Which very much depends if you need something like that. I foresee most PIs sitting in draws. It's reall sale will be for hacking program's as it's so cheap and programable. Think of Pinter75 type of projects.
Also just as it plays HD, doesn't mean it can play all HD content.
No drm, Netflix or other services..
which is a huge growing market and what's the point of a device for a large portion of people who would need to hook up a second device to access such services.If all you want to do is watch ripped flms it's great. If you want to use it for anything else it's not a good solution for a HTPC. Even webbrosing on the Xbmc release would do my nut in.
Well you can't use netflix on linux anyway, it will be fine for 480p for any file format which I think most other streaming services are anyway. Drm services are inherently incompatible with the linux ethos, I don't think many are compatible and if they are they probably just use flash. The pi might get so popular that these streaming services remove DRM, make everything downloadable and have a decent API.
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ALL streaming services for films have DRM, it's not upto the streaming services. They're limited by the licenses they buy and they require DRM of some form or another and will continue to do.
Oh and flashes not and will never be supported by PI. It was all on their forums. As I really wanted one, Untill I read up on its limitations. Now I'm only interested if people do cool things with it, quad copters, temperature controlls, computerised greenhouse. Those sorts of projects.
Doing get me wrong, it's an amazing device and I'm looking forward to seeing what people can make it do, but I don't think people have thought about its limitations, especially as a HTPC.
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I wouldn't say most, but a fair few will be barely used. Still, at least the people buying the product even if unused will show Raspberry Pi and other companies the demand for such a device, which may speed up development of future devices.
Doh! I thought you were talking about it's lack of CPU power and that it can't handle all video types in your first post. None of these USB computers are going to be able to use these streaming services without help from the companies themselves. I hate DRM, why can't companies just offer a stream and 1080p x264 download?
Cotton candy will, ok 6 times the price. But it's designed for public with more powerful CPU that has the necessary extensions. As it also runs android or Linux. You can get the Netflix apps, as well as all googles rentals etc.
Android or linux it's upto you. So can run anything android apps. So all google services, Netflix apps etc. As well as web browse th out it being dead slow.
But it hasn't got the hardware needed to run the bits you need to get flash, drm, and i assume payment system working.
what's that got do with anything and the limitations of PI.It's a port, it could theoretically get all of it working on an x86 platform. It would also require a second port for ARM, what they might just end up doing is porting the normal Android for it. It is entirely possible that we get a well working android port for the PI that has full functionality.
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What is a "draw"?