On 1/22/06, Brian Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > With some recent discussion here about CPUs and costs I wonder what > the "average" cost of a MythTV machine might be.
I doubt you'd be able to boil it down to any single "average" number, because there's so much variation about what a MythTV machine does. For example, my first MythTV box cost me less than $200. I used a 900MHz PC I scavanged from work and an old bttv capture card I got on extended loan from a friend, and just had to buy a large hard drive to store things on, and an el-cheapo Nvidia video card with TV-out. My current setup was only a little more expensive. I have 2 frontend machines: the same one above, and another I put together from parts I had laying around (cost: about $30 for another Nvidia card). The backend I bought all new parts for (1.5GHz AMD, a PVR-250, 2 80G hard drives, cheap case). It was, maybe, $500 three or four years ago. Pretty much any machine you can throw together today is going to be fast enough for standard-def TV. I'm currently putting together an all new frontend that can playback HD, plus a tuner and more hard drives for the backend. It'll probably all be $900 to $1000 because I'm going to be splurging on a nice case that'll fit with the other stereo components, and make everything super quiet. I'm probably overspending on a few things, but I'm hoping it's fast enough that I won't have to do this again any time soon. -- Tony _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
