Greetings all, One of my personal projects for some time has been to build a Home Theatre PC based on Linux. The first step was to get MythTV up and running. I have accomplished that on my regular desktop machine and am overall quite impressed with the capability and the "fit and finish" of this suite of applications. My next step is to build up a hardware platform that will be a dedicated machine for the Home Theatre. The hardware pieces that I need are a DVD-RW, TV cards, a sound card and a video card. I have a mother board, case, power supply, Athlon XP 2100+, memory, 250 gig hard drive, and NIC. From having done some research, it seems that the most highly reguarded TV cards for use with MythTV are the Hauppauge PVR-350 ( http://www.hauppauge.com/pages/products/data_pvr350.html ) and the HD-3000 ( http://www.pchdtv.com/ ). Since MythTV supports PNP and dual simultaneous recording, I am planning on getting two TV cards and am considering either two HD-3000's or one of each. I would be i! nterested in any experience and/or opinions that listers may have with regard to these pieces as well as thoughts and recommendations for the other items. I think that this will eventually become a workshop topic for the Newbies/CCCC Linux SIG group.
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