I fail to see how this is relevant.
David Terry Stockdale wrote: > For those who are interested, I will be doing a presentation this > Thursday night (1/6/05) at 6:15pm at the Cajun Clickers Computer > Club. Location is the Christian Life Fellowship Hall, at 2037 Quail > Drive, behind Pennington Biomedical Center. Quail Drive is just west > of Pennington, off of Perkins, at the light. Visitors are welcome. > > My topic will be "Upgrading to a Home Theater PC" and will be focused > on Windows boxes as HTPCs, with little more than a mention that there > are some Linux alternatives for the software. SageTV software, which > I use, runs on Win98SE and later. The Hauppauge PVR-250 requires > P3-733+ for its software. I've used it on a P3-750. On my HTPC, I > have an Athlon XP 2500+ and three PVR-250's. The PVR-250 has its > encoding in hardware. > > In December, Clickers had someone from MS showing the new Windows MCE > boxes, but most people were turned off when they found that they > couldn't "upgrade" their machine's OS to this new XP version. > Personally, I found its interface just "too cute." WinXP MCE is > available only as OEM software. > > You can see my HTPC on my website. Come to the Clickers meeting if > you want to see it in person. > > Terry > Terry Stockdale -- Baton Rouge, LA > > http://www.terrystockdale.com > At 02:03 PM 1/4/2005, you wrote: > >> If any of you need a capture card, I hear that the wintv-pvr-250 is an >> awsome card. It comes very highly recommended by the mythtv folks, so >> don't let the "win" part of the name scare you off. >> http://www.hauppauge.com/Pages/prods_pvrs.html >> >> >> On Tue, 4 Jan 2005 10:41:59 -0800 (PST), John Hebert >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > Then this situation is a good example of how video >> > content providers could benefit from making their >> > content cheaply available for timeshifting, i.e.; via >> > bittorrent after the initial showing. The ads and >> > commercials could stay embedded within the video, if >> > they were worried about revenue. >> > >> > Ok, maybe too much wasabe at lunch... >> > >> > --- Ryan McCain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > > I guess I could dust off the VCR.. However, half the >> > > fun of the show is >> > > chatting w/ people as its going on. >> > > >> > > BTW, My Linux laptop isn't powerful enough to be a >> > > PVR. >> > > >> > > rn >> > > >> > > >> > > >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1/4/2005 10:10:42 AM >>> >> > > I assume "Lost" is some kinda scheduled broadcast >> > > video content. >> > > >> > > C'mon man, it is the 21st century already. Take >> > > control of your neural diet and timeshift! Remove >> > > your >> > > chains of corporate advertisement bondage! ;) >> > > >> > > cheap video capture cards: >> > > >> > >> http://search.ebay.com/Bt848_W0QQsofocusZbsQQsbrftogZ1QQfromZR10QQcatrefZC6QQcatrefZC6QQsotrtypeZ1QQsotrvalueZ1QQsadistanceZ200QQsopostalZQ5AIPQ2FPostalQQsosortpropertyZ1 >> >> >> > > >> > > >> > > Linux PVR >> > > http://mythtv.org/ >> > > >> > > --- Ryan McCain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > > > That means I would have to miss "Lost".. :( >> > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net >
