Following up on my own post... So I went to CompUSA before hitting up the MerriLUG meeting (that I'm typing this from). I picked up a PVR-150-MCE. I opened it at Martha's and it is indeed a PVR-150.
A side note. There were PVR-150's in two different style boxes. On the bottom of the box, they had two different numbers/codes: SL-1062-v1.0-US SL-1062-v2.0-US To be "safe" I grabbed te 1.0 box, and I apparently lucked out. While I was there, I poked at some of the HP Pavilion desktops. The two models that I found that had TV cards (the m7760n and m7780n) both had Hauppauge HVR-1600's. -Shawn On 2/15/07, Shawn K. O'Shea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I was thinking about all those media center machines out there and it generally got me thinking...could we recommend prebuilt Myth systems or PCs that you could easy reinstall from the shipped Windows MCE to Myth. Here are some thoughts and links along those lines: Monolith PC (I heard about these guys a little while ago) https://monolithmc.com/ These start at 700$. They are Ubuntu based. In poking around the MythTV wiki, I also found: TVease http://www.tvease.net/ Also Ubuntu based, their Hannibal starts at 500$. The MythTV wiki also listed a few barebones mini-PCs that are friendly: http://mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Bare_Bones_System The other thought I had (other than "looks like other things in your entertainment center" [WinMCE] media centers) are all these media center friendly desktops. They're usually pretty cheap (500-700 starting price, where media centers are normally 900 or more to start). I know HP puts WinTV PVR-150's in at least some of their boxes. Only problem is that not many people seem to have tried out this scenario. If all the components are compatible, the HP Pavilion a1750e series might be a great target. These start at 550$ + 80$ for an unknown model TV tuner card. The starter model has the following specs on it's OEM'ed ASUS motherboard: Athlon 64 X2 3800+ Dual Core cpu 1GB RAM 60GB SATA HD Lightscribe DVD+-R/RW Integrated Nvidia Geforce 6150 LE graphics Integrated Realtek audio Marvell gigabit ethernet It has S-Video out already on board, and a firewire onboard as well. Details here: http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?docname=c00783678&lc=en&cc=us&dlc=en&product=3369460 Dell has similar desktops. A friend in Mass. just bought one, so I'll see if he'll let me boot a Knoppix CD and grab some dmesg/lspci output the next time I'm over (next Tuesday). Anyway, to some extent, this is all me just "thinking out loud". -Shawn
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