On 6/18/05, Donavan Stanley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 6/18/05, John Hanauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > More specifically than my goal above, I'll also mention I want to > > transcode most of my recordings to save space (MPEG-4, or a friend of > > mine swears I should make everything Xvid, dunno about that) > > Xvid IS mpeg4... And your friend is right. > > > > My friend thinks I should spend thousands of dollars to make this > > thing HD ready NOW. I think that's ridiculous, outside the scope of > > my goal especially without anything HD currently in my posession. > > Doesn't take thousands. Doesn't take a whole lot more than a normal system.
Until you start counting HD space... I have 5 300GB Seagate drives into mine, in RAID-5, so about 1TB usable space, and even though I got them for $129 a piece, it still ads up very fast. And now I watch it filling up slowly (and I don't even have HD tuner, although I do have lots of DVDs which I want to have available without searching the shelves :) You also need a video card with component TV-out unless your TV has DVI input, adds about $100. -- Fedor G Pikus ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.pikus.net http://wild-light.com _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
