Hardware Purchases

Posted by blackrat on July 25, 2006

I decided, after some examination of systems and costs, to explore two options. MythTV on Via EPIA boards and, mainly because I like the footprint, the mini Mac as clients. So the system running currently is:

  1. MythTV backend running on an EPIA M1000 with a 400 GB drive
  2. MythTV frontend running on an EPIA M1000 with a 2.5″ laptop boot drive
  3. Two MAC mini’s (Intel) currently running Apple’s frontend, but in the process of being converted to MythTV frontends.

PVR

Posted by blackrat on March 05, 2006

About a year ago, I started looking into systems for home video and other media systems. The aim was to have a consumer friendly box to replace a plethora of others including DVD/CD player/recorder, DAB radio, VHS deck and possibly enable telephony (VoIP). The options: buy a consumer box, find an existing open-source or commercial solution, build a HTPC running Windows/Linux/Other, etc.

This category will chart recent and past progress and may serve somewhat as a warning how not to do this.

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