On Sun, 2005-03-13 at 09:14 -0500, Maverick wrote: > > "You're crazy" and "You're crazy, there's no way you're going > > to spend that much money on a Tivo!" is the difference between > > "girlfriend" and "wife". ;) > > Yeah, and I hear those new child processes know as "Kid version 1.0" > and subsequent versions 2.0 and 3.0 also cause budgets to decline. > Doh!
And places where public schools suck, private/parochial tuitions really bite into the budget, too. :\ > > Here's the latest parts list: > > Antec Aria case $100 > > Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-350 170 > > Streamzap PC Remote 27 > > MSI K7N2GM-V nForce2 mobo 55 > > Sempron 2300+ (Retail) 65 > > RAM PC3200 256MB 23 > > Samsung 160GB Model SP1614C HDD SATA (OEM) 65 > > Shipping, ground (New Egg and PCAlchemy) 30 > > --- > > 535 > > > > For now, if I want to burn DVDs, I'll just scp them > > to "my" PC. > > I didn't do any media drive, no point really. Neet, but SMB/NFS/SCP > makes it so easy to move transcoded shows to another computer. > > Another option is go with a board with svideo out, and get a cheaper > tuner. $70 for a PVR-150.. I hear support for it is becoming stable, > no FM support yet though, (ivtv version 0.3.x). You'd spend $20 more > on the mobo, but -$100 on the tuner. Unless you plan on using the FM > or IR port on the 350... No need for FM. That's what radios are for... ;) > I'm still somewhat undecided about how I like the 350 out. It's nice, > but it has it's quirks... Of course, it's the only hardware decoding > option, so... I want to try out the nVidia out of my mobo, just > haven't had the time to set it up and research the XvMC stuff I know > nothing about. Interesting thoughts. Lets you easily watch "non-PVR-x50" MPEGs, but you need a beefier CPU, and a decent video card, correct? -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson, LA USA PGP Key ID 8834C06B I prefer encrypted mail. "It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it." General Douglas MacArthur
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