Interact-TV today announced MyTellyHD, a fanless $899 Linux-based HD media center with upscaled 720p output and Gigabit Ethernet. Not taking the boring route when it comes to industrial design, MyTellyHD includes standard-def video recording with a no-subscription-fee programming guide/remote scheduling, video library with play or save capability including DVD cover art, MPEG2 video encoding, DVD burning, and video playback in most formats including AVI, DivX 3/4/5/6, MPEG1, MPEG2, MPEG4, MSMPEG4, WMV, Motion JPEG, Cinepak, DV, MSVideo1, Sorenson SVQ1/SVQ3, Creative YUV, QuickTime, RealMedia, H263 and H264+. It also includes other standard media center features such as ripping and playback of music libraries with CDDB lookup, photo library management, streaming video and audio from the Internet and other computers on your home network, and web browsing with Firefox.

Hardware specs include a 160GB drive (400GB optional), 512MB system memory, 6.1 audio, component, s-video and composite video output, NTSC tuner, composite video input, S-video input, coax input, firewire, USB 2.0, an IR trackball remote and an optional RF keyboard and RF blaster.

Decidedly focused on Internet-based digital media and DVDs, it does not have an HD tuner, CableCARDs or HD video inputs for recording. Still, a capable fanless HD media center for under $900 is interesting. TechDigs.net hopes to get a review unit soon. 

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