Insignia (Chumby) Infocast
While on a 2 week vacation to watch the Daytona 500 (my wife is the NASCAR fan), I picked up the Chumby powered Insignia Infocast (in spite of none of the Best Buy drones knowing what one was). Now that I have it, I'm wondering what I'm going to use it for.
It certainly will function as an 8" 800x600 digital picture frame, just stick in an SD card. Ideally I'd like to pull stuff from iPhoto or Picassa (since that's where I store photos now). It can also play back videos, although the challenge will be figuring out the right codec/container/bitrate. It also has UPnP and it sees my MythTV server, so I might try transcoding HDTV shows, or stuff from the TiVo.
It also can play MP3s, although I haven't played around with it yet. And I don't know if there's an iTunes interface.
There are also a thousand or so Chumby widgets which should work. Finding ones are worthy to use is a different story. I have set up a Twitter app for my wife. It's okay, but not perfect.
But it's also a mini Linux box. Whether that gives me anything I want I have yet to find out.
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