The Digital Lifestyle Show #487 – Phantom Vibrations
This week on the show we talk about Garry’s trip to Sony HQ to look at their new Android TV powered curved TV. We talk Windows 10 on phones, Windows 10 update rollup and how my Encore 8 is working much better, Raspberry Pi 2, new universal office apps, Media…
DVBLink v5.1 updated with Raspberry Pi 2 support
DVBLogic have released an updated build of DVBLink 5.1 that adds support for the brand new Raspberry Pi 2. The new Raspberry Pi has a quad core processor and so can handle serving multiple TV streams. DVBLogic say they have had the board running as a TV server with 3…
OpenELEC 5.0.1 released with support for the new Raspberry Pi 2
OpenELEC the embedded distribution of Kodi/XMBC has been updated adding support for the Raspberry Pi 2. The update includes the latest version of Kodi, updated Kernel and a lot of other changes (see below) enabling OpenELEC to work on the new Raspberry Pi. With OpenELEC you can turn a PC…
Raspberry Pi 2 will run Windows Universal apps but not the Windows 10 shell
The announcement of the new Raspberry Pi 2 was particularly interesting for me as the Raspberry Pi foundation and Microsoft said that it would run Windows 10 via its Internet of Things program (and be free for makers). In the announcements Microsoft didn’t go into specifics as to what you…
Raspberry Pi 2 on sale and it will run Windows 10, for free
Today the Raspberry Pi foundation has announced a retail availability of the Raspberry Pi 2, a new faster Pi that has 6x the performance of the old device, double the memory with an ARMv7 processor. Priced at £30 the board is going to be great for enthusiasts. For my point…
New special edition Fuse Raspberry Pi has a familiar look to it
Here on TDL we have talked about FUZE a Raspberry Pi based workstation designed to make programming accessible to kids and adults (see Garry’s review) and they have just release a special edition that has a rather familiar look to it. The Special Edition FUZE…
Raspbmc November update for the Raspberry Pi
It’s been a couple of months we talked about Raspbmc, the XMBC distribution for the Raspberry Pi and there is a new build ready for Raspberry Pi users. This month the update adds support for HiHiBerry digital audio device as well as fixes for AirPlay with iOS 8, a fix…
OpenELEC 4.2.0 released
After 6 months of testing the release version of OpenELEC 4.2.0 is available for downloading. The embedded version of XBMC uses the an updated Linux Kernel (3.16), it has an updated Nvidia graphics driver in the 64 bit image and the latest version of XBMC (Gotham 13.2). H264(HEVC) and Dolby…
OpenELEC 4.2 Beta 6 released
The embedded distribution of XBMC OpenELEC has been refreshed again. Version 4.2 beta 6 of OpenELEC doesn’t an updated build of XBMC but it does have updated version of Mesa, llvm and an updated Linux kernel (3.16.2). This build fixes crashing issues with a PS3 remote and updated Raspberry Pi…
XBMC distribution for the Raspberry Pi XBian 1.0 Release Candidate 3
It has been a while since Xbian have had a release of their XBMC distribution for the Raspberry Pi and now they have a new release. This release has an updated build of XBMC (13.2), it has support for the Raspberry Pi B+, support for XBMC Alsa and HifiBerry sound,…
