SCALE 2010 Report
Last weekend I got the opportunity to fly out to sunny (or so I thought) California for the 8th annual SCALE expo. Sean (malloc) and I had a great time shaking hands with users, talking about XBMC, and meeting developers and volunteers from a vast number of projects. It was especially fun hanging out with Long Phung from Yahoo, meeting Shawn and Katherine from the Linux Journal crew who are apparently loyal XBMC users, Lysandra from the SFLC, and everyone else along the way. Also a special thanks to Gareth Greenaway for the invite and for arranging such a great expo.
The crowd there was very impressed by what XBMC can do, and many stopped by to give their thanks and ask good questions. Many visitors dropped in just to ask about the beautiful Zotac MAG (thanks Zotac!) that was on display — a great htpc for use with XBMC.
I encourage all of our users to drop by and see us at these shows, they’re really a lot of fun! Sadly, my pictures did not turn out well at all so there’s not much to show, only one that I’ve borrowed from LinuxJournal. Maybe next year I’ll remember a decent camera…
Left to right: me (Cory Fields), malloc (Sean Soria), Shawn Powers from Linux Journal
It was really great to talk to you too! Hopefully we’ll run into you at another event soon.
i concur .. the zotac mag is a great htpc .. i setup my buddies entertainment setup at his new place with 3 of them and a 11tb nas .. its sweet :)
only thing i would change on is to drop in a ssd instead of the “slow” hdd thats in there now
Yes, great to meet you guys. I wish I had more time to “talk shop” — I’m such an XBMC fanboy, I got a bit verklempt. :D
It would be nice to pay a visit there and meet you in person… Unfortunately Spain is not that close to California.
Have a good time!
Personally I cant imagine not using xbmc. I have introduced it to a few friends and within days they have built themselves a home theatre pc with xbmc. So as someone who does not get to these events let me say on here thank you for all your hard work.
Damm, you shouldn’t have mentioned the zotac, now I have to buy one, I mean just bought one because of this article.
i just bought myself zotac
Any ION based thing is great HTPC.
But before you buy:
Video playback seems to me reasonable, except WMV-HD (where ffd/rwd just does not work), and occassional pauses on picture.
For Audio: Maybe someday the correct multi channel output will also work, just out of the box with the latest NV drivers…on linux (offcourse).
Currently only works (on linux) with quiet old driver (185) the DolbyDigital and DTS, does not work DTS-HD (only core), with wrong channel mapping DDtrueHD 5.1/AAC5.1. DolbyDigital+ has some problems, DDTrueHD works as Multichannel LPCM output.