Playing with Sony's Linux-Based Networked Media Player 129
ZorinLynx writes "A while back, Sony released the NSP-1, a 'Network Storage Player.' It is intended to be a source of video for signage, such as plasma displays in banks, airports, and so on. I got a chance to play with one today. It's Red Hat Linux-based, which seems unusual for Sony! Though pricey at $1995, it's an interesting use of Linux, and could probably be hacked into a nice set-top video jukebox. It has a nice small form factor, as well as ethernet, USB, and video output in various formats, and a PCMCIA slot for removable media."
firewall? (Score:2, Interesting)
$1995?? (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:Overall, a fun hack. (Score:5, Interesting)
I was just surprised to find out this thing even existed, and that Sony was using Linux in one of its products. Sony has always come off to me as a company that does everything their own proprietary way, and gives the finger to most open standards. (Memory stick, anyone?)
-Z
Not the first Sony-Redhat collaboration (Score:5, Interesting)
not suprising... (Score:5, Interesting)
Sony TV (Score:5, Interesting)
I thought it was interesting as it takes awhile for it to display anything when you first turn it on. I thought the CRT needed to warm up. Maybe it is just Linux booting.
Video streaming... (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:Overall, a fun hack. (Score:5, Interesting)
That does raise the bar, but every motherboard I've looked at had some way to bypass the BIOS password, and in extreme cases someone with unsupervised physical access could pull out the hard disk and copy it. Not to mention that an attacker could read and write arbitrary memory if the machine has a Firewire port (http://pacsec.jp/advisories.html [pacsec.jp]).
How very American... (Score:3, Interesting)
Linux Media Player? (Score:3, Interesting)
Can someone with access to one of these things take a look at the video libraries and tell us where they come from?
Pioneer Plasmas Too (Score:5, Interesting)
There:-) (Score:4, Interesting)
How do I know? Well, one time I was flying Song, and the system hung up, and the stewardess rebooted it, and the linux boot screen came up on all the seatback displays, complete with the Tux logo. It's sooo coool!! I'm soo coool!!
Re:There:-) (Score:1, Interesting)
I spotted the same thing at the International Spy Museum in Washington, DC. There were some P3 Linux boxes(hidden inside a counter) that had encountered some problem, as they kept rebooting...