Raspberry Pi Running Xbmc And 1080p Vids

Post by **Nellyboy** » Tue Jan 24, 2012 6:37 pm

Hi, just as the sharing community is in total meltdown these bods at raspberry Pi come up with the cheapest fullHD player ever.

Just darn <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pl ... NR57ELY28s" target="_blank">clever it is.</a>

Waiting for a little case for it then I will drop the bucks on one of these when the os is sorted for media player playback, something like googletv would be nice.

Post by **andrew** » Wed Jan 25, 2012 5:57 pm

Impressive, where will you be getting yours from Nelly ?

Post by **Nellyboy** » Wed Jan 25, 2012 9:22 pm

Hi Andrew, I am waiting for a decent case for it and a workable OS with full functionality. Then I will drop the dosh. I think I would buy direct from Raspberry Pi and put it together meshelf. There will be a good community soon to get an OS sorted (Linux or Android or Win8 for arm chip)

Post by **Rasputin** » Thu Jan 26, 2012 8:30 am

I would imagine that at the you would be able to install DSL or Puppy linux quite comfortly, I would really consider one for the living room media center once a nice wee case came out from it.

Post by **Trig** » Thu Jan 26, 2012 9:35 am

Could be useful, any SATA on it?

Post by **Rasputin** » Thu Jan 26, 2012 10:10 am

<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raspberry_ ... ifications" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raspberry_ ... cations</a>

Not that I can see trig but network storage would be accessible

Post by **Trig** » Thu Jan 26, 2012 10:25 am

Hopefully something that they'll add at a later date, network storage is ok but if you could have something like this with a sata bay you could have all your media on a 2.5" drive and then run straight from that..

Post by **andrew** » Fri Jan 27, 2012 7:15 pm

Whats the biggest SD card now a days 32gb ? That coupled with network got to be a go-er ?

Post by **Nellyboy** » Wed Feb 29, 2012 5:42 pm

These are for sale now but surprise surprise all sold out. I will wait 6 months for a cool case and a sorted os. I wish them every success with getting these into schools.

Post by **Claw** » Thu Mar 01, 2012 12:20 am

Start learning to write programs, Python might be a good start, that's quite simple to learn.

Post by **Class--** » Thu Mar 01, 2012 12:46 am

I can see this taking off quite well especially at Â£25. Also with such things as <a href="http://codeyear.com/" target="_blank">http://codeyear.com/</a> via <a href="http://www.codecademy.com/#!/exercises/0" target="_blank">http://www.codecademy.com/#!/exercises/0</a> then I'm sure a surge of little programmers will evolve. In a way its taking it back to the days Bill Gates and Steve Jobs enjoyed.
Anyone else love the look of that tiny PC in the Windows 8 YouTube video?
Yep I think this is gonna be a good year

/me tries to remember his Java trainning as he shouts Hello World