Myka sneaks BitTorrent into the living room

by Paul Miller posted Mar 21st 2008 at 1:37PM

OK, perhaps not so sneaky, there's a nice big BitTorrent logo right up front, but Myka seems to be quite the end-to-end solution for getting those torrents up on the big screen. The box hooks up to the internet via LAN or WiFi, includes a 80GB, 160GB or a 500GB drive for storage and runs a torrent client on Linux. Outputs include HDMI, composite, S-Video and SPDIF, and codec support is substantial. You can add storage via USB, and pull video off your computer if you're not in a downloading mood. Prices range from $299 to $459. Let's keep it legal out there, kids!

[Thanks, ARZ]

Filed under: Media PCs, Media streamers

Tags: bittorrent, myka, torrent

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

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scagnetti @ Mar 21st 2008 2:38PM

Hey man, I'm sick of the "man" coming down on us peoples. I use torrents for legitimate purposes. Just the other day I seeded a garage band's sweet tune from my local town with there permission. And just this morning a downloaded this kickass calculator app for my PSP with modded firmware. So there you see! All legit, stickin' to the man!

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HDMike @ Mar 21st 2008 3:01PM

Myka better hope that Apple doesn't have design patents on the appearance of the AppleTV. That thing couldn't look more like an AppleTV if they tried.

A pirated design to service the pirating needs of the A/V community. Nicely done Myka!

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NoAndThen @ Mar 21st 2008 3:35PM

I really disagree with that, man. By that logic, any external hard drive case that is square would violate said patent. It's not a full computer, either... it's a bit torrent client/media server.

Pretty sure they could try harder, like not putting logos or a usb port on the front.. maybe add a dvd drive, to name a few.

Doesn't look like ATV to me...

Sweet it has HDMI though.. I don't really see the point though when I have a NAS and XBMC.

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