Re:Ask HN: Were you in the early 2000s HTPC scene?
by magicalhippo on Thursday October 22, 2020 @11:09AM
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Helped a buddy who wanted to sell a HTPC box, based on a mini-ITX board in a neat small case. The motherboard he'd picked had IR remote support, and it would be running XBMC.
Main problem was mainly price, as it often is. No way it could have approached the price of my NVIDIA Shield TV box.
But he did make a few and sold it to people he knew.
I helped him automate the Linux install and setup, so he could just drop a txt file with owner details and the image on a USB stick and boot from it to install a new box. This became my first exposure to XBMC, which I liked quite a lot.
Main problem was mainly price, as it often is. No way it could have approached the price of my NVIDIA Shield TV box.
But he did make a few and sold it to people he knew.
I helped him automate the Linux install and setup, so he could just drop a txt file with owner details and the image on a USB stick and boot from it to install a new box. This became my first exposure to XBMC, which I liked quite a lot.