Re: MythTV to the next level.

From: Les Klassen Hamm <les_at_no.spam.please>
Date: Sat Mar 17 2007 - 11:04:51 CST

Dylan Griffiths wrote:
> Les Klassen Hamm wrote:
>> The PCHDTV PC-5500 (or the HD 3000, its predecessor) seems to be one
>> of the most common choices for building with myth. And it's not very
>> expensive. The expensive part is that everything else needs to be
>> bigger or faster to deal with the larger content.
>
> What kind of cost is involved, and where would I get one? My mythTV box
> is rather overspecced anyway (Athlon 64 w/ tonnes of RAM), thanks tor
> NCIX.com and the march of hardware prices ever downward :)

These guys http://pchdtv.com/hd_5500.html seem ready to sell you one for
$129 USD plus shipping (about $20 USPS to Canada).

It's cool to see a product that supports linux, and then says "Microsoft
and Apple operating systems are currently not supported."

> A few info pages say it does OTA HDTV, but I don't think anyone here
> broadcasts in HDTV, and I personally don't care for local channels...

Check http://pchdtv.com/faq.html for details.
        Les...

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Received on Sat Mar 17 11:05:04 2007

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