Neuros Technology is shipping its new open set-top box. The HD-capable Open Source Device 2.0 runs several Linux stacks on a Texas Instruments CPU.
The OSD2 aims to be more than just a consumer device, however. Describing it as a “super-reference design,” Born explained that one aim for Neuros has been to create an open hardware design that can be used as the basis for other products, by customers who want to make set-top boxes, but do not want to design their own hardware. “We’re trying to do for the TV set what the IBM PC did for the computer — provide an open platform so Visicalc doesn’t have to be in the hardware business,” [Neuros CEO Joe Born] explained.
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- Neuros OSD front
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- Neuros OSD open
