Linux Beach
MultiMedia Center 1200
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- Better than Tivo! MythTV ready to go!
- HDTV ready!
- Record and view at same time!
- 10 USB & 2 Firewire 1394a ports for
high-speed
- Digital Audio and 8 Channel Analog Output
- Extremely Quiet System
- Infrared Remote Control
- Gigabit Ethernet LAN
- TV Tuner, S-Video and Composite Input
- Store 900 hours of Video or much more Audio
- HDMI, DVI and VGA output
- Support for Dual Monitor or TV & Monitor
- Dual Core AMD Athlon 64 Processor
- Ubuntu Linux with complete MultiMedia Support
- Quiet MultiMedia Case
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Quick
Story:
AMD Athlon II X2 240, 4GB DDR2, 1TB HD, 22x DL DVD+/-RW,
Nvidia nForce 750a SLI chipset, Nvidia GeForce 8 Series video with
HDMI,
Hauppauge PVR-1600 TV Tuner with MPEG2 hardware encoding. One Year
Warranty on Parts
& Labor. Three Year Warranty on CPU.
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The Linux Beach MultiMedia Center 1200
will be the
center of your home entertainment, information, communications
and local control system. It is a high-powered Linux computer that
connects to
the Internet and your local network, and interfaces with your
television
and home audio system to provide you with unparalleled centralization
and utilization of all your home electronics resources.
It has 2 Firewire
ports and 12 high speed USB 2.0 ports for connecting to all you
audio-video and storage devices. In addition it has SPIDIF
digital audio
out to drive your surround sound 5.1 or 7.1 audio system and 8 channels
out to directly drive analog amplifiers, PS/2 keyboard and mouse ports.
Video out can be had via
standard analog VGA, digital DVI or HDMI for the TV or monitor. Two
monitors or
a monitor and TV can be used differently at the same time.
Video can be captured with the ATCS HDTV tuner, NTSC cable or composite
analog video in.
Finally gigabyte LAN gives you the tightest possible connection to the
world.
AMD took the lead in processor technology
when it came out with a 64bit
CPU that respected the installed base of 32 bit software and was not
priced beyond the means of most users. The Athlon II 2X puts two 64 bit
CPUs into one package and allows us to bring you a true dual processor
system for a price that would have been a dream only a few years ago.
Dual channel memory management on the CPU provides an effective memory
bus speed of 800 MHz. and the 4GB memory can be expanded to 8GB.
The Nvidia nForce 750a SLI chipset on the
mainboard
provides the best PCI
timing, 3Gb/s SATA II and RAID 1,0, 10 capabilities. Two PCI -Ex16, one
PCI 2.2 and two
PCI-Ex1 slots are available for
expansion. The Nvidia GeForce 8 video output is driven at twice
the speed
of AGP 8X through the PCI-Express16 port. The hard drive uses
the latest SATA II technology and sports twice the cache of most of its
competitors. The double-layer DVD rewritable does it all. It will
read and write all your DVDs and CDROMs and it will do it fast, up to
8.5GB on a disk. You'll
be able to play all your DVD movies to the TV out and with full
Dolby surround sound and you'll be able to run it all from your easy
chair with the remote control.
Computers are usually very noisy beasts.
Not
so here! This system was
designed from the ground up to be whisper quiet because it was designed
for the home. First, it is in the RaidMax R1case , which has been
well designed with low noise in mind. It uses a robust
450 watt power supply that is actually smart enough to turn its fan
off when it's not needed, and the very quiet CPU fan is further rpm
controlled by AMD's Cool'n'Quiet technology. Don't worry though; we put
green
LEDs on the front so that you can tell when it is on.
With its elegant
piano-black finish, blue LED illumination and chrome accents, the
horizontal configuration blends gracefully into any living space.
This case
features 2 x 5.25" external drive bays, and 1x 3.5" external
drive bays. USB, firewire and
audio ports are located on the front.
"Ubuntu" is an
ancient African word, meaning "humanity to others".
Ubuntu also means "I am what I am because of who we all are". The
Ubuntu Linux distribution brings the spirit of Ubuntu to the software
world. [from the Ubuntu
Linux website]
All of this hardware is powered by Ubuntu
Linux. This means that you
are running a high powered UNIX operating system on a dual 64 bit
processor machine. All of the network services you might need for a
full
service Internet server are there, including Apache 2.0 with PHP, perl
and MySQL. Postfix, SpamAssassin, Mailman, sshd and the SAMBA MSWindows
server are also included. This is an open source system and the
complete software development system is included, including lots of
source code and documentation. Tinker on! For a desktop interface you
have your choice of either Gnome or KDE running on top of Xorg XWindows
with Nvidia TwinView support. The Mozilla FireFox browser and
Thunderbird mail application will probably be your main Internet
clients, but you'll have lots of choices. Open Office 2.0 will handle
your MS Office compatible work tasks, the GIMP handles your graphics
editing and the list goes on. Hundreds of applications programs are
included and thousand more can be download and installed over the net.
Most of them are free,
MythTV heads a line-up of some of the
finest multimedia software to be
found anywhere. MythTV allows this system to maintain an updated
schedule of local TV programs, schedule those programs to be recorded
for future viewing, view live TV and record while viewing, archive
recorded shows and view them on demand from anyplace on the network.
MythTV is like Tivo on steroids and will change the way you view TV.
With the Hauppauge PVR-1600, the
LBMC 1200 becomes a system that
will allow you to watch and record high definition TV and a dual tuner
system that can now watch one channel while recording another, or
record two channels at once. Ask us how the system can be expanded to
record as many as six channels at once.
MPlayer will play your DVDs and virtually
any other type of Video/Audio
file you can find. It plays most MPEG/VOB, AVI, Ogg/OGM, VIVO,
ASF/WMA/WMV, QT/MOV/MP4, RealMedia, Matroska, NUT, NuppelVideo, FLI,
YUV4MPEG, FILM, RoQ, PVA files, supported by many native, XAnim, and
Win32 DLL codecs. You can watch VideoCD, SVCD, DVD, 3ivx, DivX 3/4/5
and even WMV movies.
XMMS will do much more than play your mp3
and other audio files. It
will allow you to create play lists and visual displays to go with the
music.
A keyboard and mouse will be necessary for
most administrative and
normal computer functions, we recommend the wireless
keyboard and mouse as being particularly convenient at home, but most
day-to-day audio/video functions can be controlled by the included 43
button infrared remote. The remote can even be used as a mouse to
operate other programs and the irblaster allows the LBMS 1200 to
control
other devices.
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