----- Original Message ----- From: "David Levine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2004 4:43 PM Subject: [mythtv-users] Dell OptiPlex for Myth front-end
> Hi, all. I currently have an "under the stairs" MythTV backend (dual > PVR250 tuners), and a single XBox front-end in the living room. I'm > thinking about a second front-end in the bedroom, however I was > thinking about a small form factor PC instead of another XBox. For $89 or so you can get a Hauppauge MediaMVP unit and use the software at http://mvpmc.sourceforge.net to turn the unit into a very basic Myth-frontend. It has S-Video and RCA TV out and can view a list of shows, watch them, and delete programs but can't yet schedule new ones (people are working on this). Completely quiet (no fan, no spinning disk -- it remote boots over the network). Actually quite slick, as long as you record your stuff in MPEG2. It doesn't do commercial skip yet, either, but does have a "30 second skip" button you can use. Doesn't do mythmusic stuff either, but you can browse an NFS-mounted directory with music in it and play back. All in all, about the cheapest pseudo-mythfrontend you can buy. You can also control it with any universal remote that speaks RC-5. _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
