On Wed, Mar 29, 2006 at 09:38:50PM -0700, Jesse Stay wrote: > I know I'll get slammed here, but I found this is one area Microsoft > actually does well in. With a Media Center edition server in one room > in the house you can get Media Center extenders that you can put > throughout the house at each TV, watch live TV through your server's > TV connection, record shows, pause, rewind, fast-forward, access > music, pictures, etc., all from remote rooms that connect to your > central server. If you have an Xbox 360, there is software that > converts it into a Media Center extender as well. > > I hear there's a Haupage device that works similar to the Media Center > extenders that you can install a MythTV-based firmware on and connect > remotely with a MythTV server. This may be a slightly cheaper > option, and probably a bit more customizable.
I'm not sure why you'd want a hardware device to do this (nor have I ever heard of such a thing). MythTV is designed to work happily across the wire. It's pretty normal for one of our roommates to be watching a show in the living room, me watching another in my room, and a third going on in my other roommates room. All this is done with one server doing all the recording (PVR 500). MythTV allows remote connections by default. I guess I find it a little excessive to pay for the extender and the media center pc when I can spend a whole lot less for the same, and more. -- Scott Paul Robertson http://spr.mahonri5.net GnuPG FingerPrint: 09ab 64b5 edc0 903e 93ce edb9 3bcc f8fb dc5d 7601
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