I posted previously about the government coupons becoming available for those digital set-top boxes (look at the comments for more links too). Now CNET has a review of them They should make a great accompaniment to those users looking to use free over the air TV as their video source. There are lots of extra channels on the digital spectrum and we'll make sure that the OSD IR blaster works with these device, so you can do timed recordings, etc. BTW, if you're confused about what these boxes mean for you as an OSD user, Jason put up a nice page explaining it: Converter Boxes and You

At Neuros, we are committed to providing an open development platform for our community.  We want our community to know where our products are headed, both so they can help us enhance them and so they can help us provide feedback.

Thanks to Greyback we have a web browser on the OSD. Well, sort of anyway. It's a bit more of a proof of concept, but it's certainly a start and he's outlined many of the steps that are remaining in his Webkit forum thread . Of course, this is not the only path to getting a web browser on the OSD, and we've got a Google Summer of Code project dedicated to this, so alternate ideas are certainly encouraged.

The idea of a web browser on the OSD is not so much for conventional surfing on the TV set, but more as a tool to locate and browse the exploding variety of multimedia content that's coming online. It also provides a way to write simple applications using web tools that would really open the door to a host of developers that could otherwise not participate in the OSD's development.

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.

I was just fixing up the wiki the other day and happened upon the TI Free Software page on our wiki and I was amazed to see how far things have come with TI over just the last couple years. I was delighted to speak at the first FOSS session at TI's recent developers conference and to see how much activity and excitement there is over free software there. I continue to believe that we're at an exciting tipping point with open electronics and TI's support will go a long way towards making this happen. There was a great deal of skepticism about our partnership with TI early on, but I believe that our approach has shown that small efforts can sometimes have a big effect even at large, slow moving companies, and I hope we can continue making these inroads. Just a couple years ago, our partnership with TI was considered more a free software liability than an asset, but with recent developments including the release of a free DSP compiler and many significant announcements on the way, I think TI is fast becoming a key partner to the free software community. Today, the TI silicon roadmap including Davinci and OMAP is an exciting one and one that we hope to continue to help advance with innovative products and free software.

Neuros will be speaking and exhibiting at LugRadio Live in San Francisco on April 12 and 13th. If you're not familiar with Lugradio, it's a great time and a very different spin on a lug meeting. It's only $10 for admission to the whole weekend and there are free gifts and prizes.
In fact all the attendees will receive a Neuros secret decoder shot glass which will allow you to participate in additional chances to win free OSDs, and other special offers and other prizes. There are also incentives to pre-register (please reference Neuros if you pre-register). We'll be talking and showing our next generation platform and making some significant announcements there, so stay tuned.

Please note: this position has been filled. We will post new openings as they become available.

In a very exciting development, Neuros has a job opening for a developer to help us get our next generation platform to market. If you're not familiar with Neuros, our vision is to create an open video device built with free software that can consolidate all of your content (both physical media as well as digital or Internet content) into a single device that is small, quiet, inexpensive, and requires little power. Neuros has joined forces with Texas Instruments to develop an open platform that fits the above requirements well, and we'll be posting more details about that shortly.

It's that time of year again, summer! Well, no, in fact it's still winter, but it's time to start thinking about summer, and that means swimsuits and bicycle riding and working on your tan! No, wrong again, that means it's time to get couped up in a dark room hacking all night and wearing dark socks with shorts. And that's exactly where your friends at Neuros and Google can help!

Neuros has applied for the '08 Summer of Code so check out the program FAQ if you're not familiar with the program. Also, please check out the Neuros '08 SoC page . Even if you can't or won't participate in the program, you can still add your ideas to the list and help support the cause. Google hasn't even chosen the sponsoring organizations yet, so if you are excited about the Neuros projects, let everyone know too, the folks at Google are apparently going to decide by Mar 17th.

Do you have files that won't play on the OSD? We are pleased to present WinFF for Neuros, a simple Windows-based Free software transcoding solution that is optimized for the Neuros OSD.

This is to announce the upcoming major OSD development milestone, migrating the OSD to Qt. As many of you already know, the Qt application framework and Qt based OSD applications have already begun to appear on the software trunk at svn.neurostchnology.com.

Compared to the existing compact Neux (Neuros application framework based on Nano-X) system, the upcoming Qt support will advance OSD development to an exciting new level, with the much more comprehensive, flexible and robust Qt platform. Qt will not only boost development performance on OSD, it will also greatly improve the cross-platform application support on OSD. With OSD Qt development, more extensive OSD functionality and dramatically broader 3rd party application support on OSD are on the way.