On 4/23/05, Lee Larson <llarson at louisville.edu> opined: > On Apr 23, 2005, at 1:55 PM, Henri Yandell made the negative > observation: > > I'm toying with the idea of building a new front end machine based > around an Epia M10000 motherboard. This is a tiny motherboard with > built-in accelerated s-video out that you can buy for under $150. It > can be the guts of a machine not much bigger than the mini and would be > about half the price of the mini, after adding memory, case and small > hard drive.
Me too. I've not built an ITX box before though, so I'm hesitant. I'm resisting the option of just buying a $150 D-Link (or alternative manufacturer) tv-box, I know I'll regret it in the long-term. > Of course, the cheapest front end machine is probably a Microsoft > X-Box, which runs Linux and the MythTV front end pretty well. If I > tried that, I'd have to negotiate with my son about how the X-Box would > be used. You have to get a mod-chip, which can be either easily, or difficultly, installed depending on actual version of the X-Box. I did the necessary research a while back to find out that I have a nice old X-Box and bought the DVD remote with the plan to mod it at some point in the future. I've a region-2 dvd I want to watch too, so the modded X-Box would be useful for that. Just not got around to deciding which of the many mod-chips I should get. Ought to go ahead and get this at some point and free up the Mac-Mini. Hen | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be April 26. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>
