User sundevil98 has laid claim to the Netflix bounty by using Mediamall's Playon software. Complete instructions are in the forum thread I'll revise these instructions once we include XBMC in the shipping software, which should be shortly and make the process much simpler (basically you'd just have to install playon on your PC and point XBMC to it.

Obviously this is an intermediate solution to getting Netflix going while we create the native Netflix application, but in the meantime, it at least allows the LINK to put Netflix on your TV, and gives you a good idea what the browsing experience is like. Thanks sundevil!

The concept of an open set-top box is new and a place that Linux has a very favorable opportunity. Unlike the desktop, where compatibility with legacy applications and peripherals is a serious impediment, the set-top box simply has to play today's available content. Today the Neuros LINK, with Flash 10 and many other media plug-ins, is a lot of the way there already. There's only a handful of content sources that don't already play, and most of the pieces and parts are available for them as well. Once we incorporate those sources, there's little reason that anyone would need a full fledged PC connected to their PC, and even less reason for Windows.

As anyone that's struggled with getting legacy applications and peripherals on a Linux desktop knows, critical mass is important, and just like the desktop, there are liable to be winners and losers. Help us to make sure that Linux achieves the critical mass it needs to make sure that content producers and hardware makers ensure compatibility with Linux. Overall you don't necessarily have to own a LINK to complete a bounty, but some of the issues are hardware related, so ultimately to claim the bounties it will have to work on one of our devices in the office.

Neuros and MediaFly are jointly sponsoring a contract to integrate the Mediafly Media Channel service into the Neuros OSD. This bounty pays $2,000 on full completion, as described below. If you are interested in applying, send an email to bounties at neurostechnology.com and describe your level of experience in a few sentences.

Press Release: For release April 21, 2008

Neuros, in partnership with Texas Instruments, is pleased to announce the creation of a new bounty program for its Open Internet Television HDPlatform. Patterned off Neuros’ previous successes with community bounties and the Google Summer of Code Program, TI and Neuros have partnered to support the free software developer community with a six month phased program that will release a host of bounties to build and optimize this new platform.

Come join us in building the Neuros Embedded Hardware Module. Let's make this the best open-source, video-focused, Internet enabled media center platform available!

Update Apr-14: due to confusion on this bounty, we have split it into two.

Bounty 1401: Add and optimize NTFS support to the OSD2.0 platform.
Amount: $3,000
Code due date¹: 30-May-2008
This bounty has been completed.

Bounty 1402: Add and optimize SD, SDHC, and MMC support to the OSD2.0 platform.
Amount: $2,000
Code due date¹: 30-May-2008
This bounty has been completed.

Bounty 1301: USB host hub support.
Amount: $5,000
Code due date¹: 30-May-2008
This bounty has been completed.

Bounty 1302: USB WiFi dongle support.
Amount: $3,000
Code due date¹: 30-May-2008
This bounty has been completed.

Bounty 1303: USB Mass-storage hotplug and multi-partition support.
Amount: $2,000
Code due date¹: 30-May-2008
This bounty has been completed.

Bounty 1201: Build DaVinci HD framebuffer and V4L2 support
Amount: $4,000
Code due date¹: 16-May-2008

This bounty is under contract with m2x.
Bounty 1202: FFMPEG VLC DaVinci porting and optimization with audio codec support for Ogg/WMA/AC3/AAC/FLAC/MP3
Amount: $6,000
Code due date¹: 30-May-2008

¹ Tentative. Please indicate in your proposal what you believe the code due date should be.

Please read about the TI-Neuros Bounty program to learn more.

We are pleased to announce the availability of two bounties for our OSD community that will help us bring the OSD20 development environment up and running. To apply please submit the form below.

Once again, it's time for Cash Money for you!
We need an enterprizing Neuros hacker to allow ordering pizzas directly from the OSD. You can port Pizza on Demand from our friends over at AwkwardTV, but you don't have to. To claim the prize you simply have to allow ordering a pizza from Domino's or Jimmy John's directly from the OSD using the remote. Use the emerging QT Based firmware. That reminds me, we desperately need an OdNT posting on that. Nero , Crweb can someone post something on that? Anyone? Anything? Please?

If you are looking for detailed rules, regulations and pages of legal boilerplate to wade through etc, well this contest is not for you. If you want some loose and vague idea of what's going on, look here . Best place for questions is probably #neuros on freenode.net or here if you don't have an IRC client handy.