Captive Works intros CW-4000HD Linux Media Center

by Darren Murph, posted Sep 18th 2008 at 11:41AM

Tired of those Windows-based media servers, are you? Enter Captive Works, which has just unleashed its Linux-based CW-4000HD. The all-black unit packs an AMD 4600 X2 CPU, 512MB of DDR2 RAM, a hard drive slot, NVIDIA's GeForce 7050 GPU, an optional ATSC tuner, HDMI / component / S-Video outputs, four USB 2.0 ports, a DVD burner and analog / digital audio outputs. It also comes bundled with software to handle PVR duties, P2P streaming, multimedia playback and pretty much anything else you'd expect a low-end HTPC to do. No mention of a price at the moment, but stay tuned on the read link if you're interested in (eventually) taking one home.

[Thanks, Aren]

Filed under: Media PCs, Media streamers, Other hardware, Others

Tags: captive works, CaptiveWorks, CW-4000HD, dvb, dvb-t, linux, media center, media server, MediaCenter, MediaServer

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andyg8180 @ Sep 18th 2008 1:01PM

:-( I like using My Movies 2... Dont think they linux'd it up yet...

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glenn s @ Sep 18th 2008 4:29PM

Not bad, but it seems a little bit underpowered. The specs lead me to believe this is a fairly standard mythTV based install, although I didn't see any mention of mythTV. Maybe I missed it.

I'm all in favor of more hardware leveraging Linux, but this one produces a great big YAWN from me.

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KC @ Sep 18th 2008 6:32PM

I think this is the first time I have ever seen Captiveworks get coverage on engadget. FTA receivers are the one area of technology that the engadget family tends to ignore. Nice to see

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zuke @ Sep 22nd 2008 12:22PM

If they can do this for $200 or less (and I have to provide the hard drive), I'll be in for one!

Please oh please...

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