On 01/23/2006 01:23 PM, CHRIS KOTTING wrote: >> - Do you (and other family members) want an "ugly" old computer >> showcased in your living room? >> > > No, so I have it behind the wall unit and use an RF keyboard and mouse. > > Actually, by threading an IR sensor through the wall, you can use IR, too. However, I recommend the RF keyboard/mouse, anyway--a remote, on the other hand, may not be worth going RF. I have an RF keyboard/mouse and remote, and I still put the receivers in the viewing room (with wires threaded through the wall). >> - How many hours of recordings do you want to keep? (HINT: it's more >> than you would ever think when your building your first mythtv box) >> > > Yes it is, but I archive off to DVD anything we deem worth keeping longer > than one viewing. >
Remember, though, that even that first viewing can be hard to come by when you've got a Myth box that's happy to just sit around and record stuff for you. I have 360GB and delete every single show after viewing (I purchase DVD's of the shows I want to keep--i.e. Stargate SG-1 and Firefly). However, I /still/ got down to less than 5GiB storage--and that's after copying 100GiB of recordings to my non-Myth fileserver!!! Mike _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
