why you should try MythTv

[Keller, Tim]

If you really wanted to get fancy you could even configure the thing to boot
via BOOTP and NFS mount all of it's file systems so you wouldn't have a
spinning hard drive.

-----Original Message-----
From: Frank [mailto:fmoody-ug-blu-discuss at moodman.org]
Sent: Thursday, October 07, 2004 3:10 PM
To: discuss at blu.org
Cc: miah; Derek Atkins
Subject: Re: why you should try MythTv


On Wed, Oct 06, 2004 at 10:04:22PM -0400, Derek Atkins wrote:
> miah <jjohnson at sunrise-linux.com> writes:
> 
> > On Wed, Oct 06, 2004 at 11:37:12AM -0400, Derek Atkins wrote:
> >> For a front-end you don't need the HDD upgrade, the USB mod, or the
> >> tuner.  So we're talking about $215 for the box plus the cost of the
> >> TV.
> >> 
> >> -derek
> >
> > Then it could probably be done cheaper by actually buying a low-end pc
> > and not require any modding.
> 
> You can get a low-end PC with hefty-enough video output for under $215???
> Where?  URL, please!  Bonus points if you can point me to an inexpensive
> LCD display....
> 
> -derek
<SNIP>

	I'm not sure how much the load differs from pulling mythtv
recordings 
versus Myth playing TiVo streams over NFS, but my little EPIA M9000 seems to

have the required horsepower.  I'm not sure about various other lines in the

EPIA family but the M10000s run ~$150 and they are slightly faster/better
than 
my board.  (Those are motherboard/CPU combos with onboard
audio/video/TV-OUT, 
so add memory and whatever local drive space you want.)

Frank

	
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