Ilumina TV runs on Ubuntu

There has been a slew of tech news and blog postings about the Ilumina TV, a prototype unveiled by a local startup here in the Philippines called Inovent Inc. At first glance on the description of the said device, it seems to be like what any computer can do attached to an LCD display, perhaps running some type of PVR software with a modified front-end. What is interesting for me though is that it is claimed to be running a stripped-down version of Ubuntu, so its possible that it could be running MythTV or Elisa with a different interface (I really doubt it if any PVR software here was made from scratch). The company has a blog that shows some pictures and slides but I’m more interested on seeing a movie of the thing in action because all I’ve seen and read at the moment are PRs.

I haven’t seen the prototype in action but one of the people behind the sofware of the said project is a friend of mine so probably I could get a sneak peak of the thing in the near future. Honestly, I would prefer a box that can be attached to my existing TV set than getting a new one, but I’ve already done that with Elisa running in a Shuttle and an AppleTV with Boxee.