I was reading many topics on this forum and found very interesting in understanding what I may do and what not with SqueezeCenter. The interesting discovery was that I may have it installed on relatively small mini Atom based box, which would cost me ~250 Euro including 330 Atom with 1G Memory and 1TB Hard drive. This would be way cheaper than to have NAS with less computing and performance capacity. It was very great and drives me away from the Sonos solution, which offers less interesting things due to the proprietary architecture and way higher price. But doing the planning for the next step into the multi-room audition I came to some other thoughts in regard to the Server. Whatever I do the solution looks like a small PS playing Music server role. It is good for money it costs, but it is still an investment. What many people were mentioning in this forum was : "... I would better wait a bit and take better version of ... or more advanced model of ... " By reading this I was thinking why do not make another step into the multimedia center where I would be able to record TV shows from the cable or play Blue-ray, which I still do not have? Such thoughts were driving me to the question, would it be worth of making the "real" multimedia server with more power and cover not just music but some other aspects and step into TV area e.g. with HDMI interface and possibility to record and play Video. The sad thing is Atom, even 330 version, would not cover this, more powerful platform would be required. It still would be fine under Linux, but would need more memory and CPU hose power. Reading the forum I did not find any post where this step was touched. Is anybody using this in Squeeze world? Ive just found very interesting offer with Intel DG45FC Board where HDMI is coming out of the box and Intel claims perfect 1080p play. I was thinking to have 4G and Intel Core2 E8400 or E8500 on it. There just one question what to do with the TV/Cable tuner. And whether this approach is reasonable... these questions are bothering me a lot and I would very appreciate your thoughts about it.
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